Reading from the novel
Lorenzo, Caspar and Miss Detroit: three friends—all somewhere between mid-life and mid-life crisis—set out on a journey through the heart of Central Europe. In the trunk: the bones of a Nazi criminal, stolen from a Berlin cemetery to beat the looting Reichsbürger to them. What begins as an absurd mission becomes a road trip across cemeteries and into the past. While Lorenzo tries to write a poem about dead European poets in the backseat, Miss Detroit dreams of becoming a cemetery botanist. And Caspar remembers his great-uncle, who died tragically as a child in the war and has haunted the family history ever since. With every kilometer driven, the three move closer to each other, longing for an answer to the question that grows louder with every grave: What do the dead tell us if we listen?
A fast-paced novel full of laconic humor: Jaroslav Rudiš sets out on a rapid odyssey along the borders of the European center and what holds us together.
