Dan Vyleta Knihy

Román z poválečného Berlína Napínavý příběh fiktivních postav na pozadí skutečných reálií válkou zničeného Berlína. Je krutá zima roku 1946, na sutiny Berlína se snášejí sněhové vločky a za zamrzlými okny se začíná odvíjet dramatický příběh. Pavel, americký voják, který po válce zůstal v Německu, leží na promrzlém lůžku, skučí bolestí, kterou mu působí jeho nemocné ledviny, a z rohu místnosti ho pozoruje malý chlapec Anders, člen dětského pouličního gangu. O patro výš prostitutka Soňa přejíždí pěstěnými prsty po víku klavíru a po schodech domu stoupá Boyd, Pavlův kamarád z války. Jde pomalu, protože v levé ruce svírá těžký lodní kufr, jehož obsah znenadání změní životy všech těchto lidí. Aniž by to tušili, druhý den ráno se ocitnou uprostřed spiknutí, které postupně nabude epických rozměrů.

Temný i čarovný román z „trochu jiné“ viktoriánské éry. Anglie je zahalena dýmem a sazemi, ty ale nepocházejí ze začouzených továren a komínů...

The Second World War is over - and yet it lives on. As the initial phase of denazification draws to a close, people across Vienna begin to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled years earlier upon discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling on the same train is eighteen-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather's sickbed and the secrets of his family's past. As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognizable city, beneath the bombed-out ruins a ghost of a man, wrapped in a red scarf, battles demons from his past and hides from a future that is deeply uncertain for all.

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes... When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Across the shared courtyard there is nine-year-old Anneliese, the lonely daughter of an alcoholic. Five windows to the left lives a secretive mime who comes home late at night and keeps something - or someone - precious hidden from view. From the garret drifts the mournful sound of an Oriental's trumpet, and a basement door swings closed behind the building's inscrutable janitor. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands? Doctor Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from public scrutiny, reluctantly becomes embroiled in an enquiry that forces him to face the dark realities of Nazi rule.

Mesmerising, electrifying, Dickensian, dystopian - SOOT welcomes us into a world in which your sin is visible.