Reading from the novel
Presale from June 9, 2026
Lorenzo, Caspar, and Miss Detroit: Three friends—all somewhere between midlife and world-weariness—set off on a journey through the heart of Central Europe. In the trunk: the bones of a Nazi criminal, which they swiped from a Berlin cemetery to beat the looters of the Reichsbürger movement to it. What starts as an absurd mission becomes a road trip across cemeteries and into the past. While Lorenzo tries to write a poem about the dead European poets in the back seat, Miss Detroit dreams of becoming a cemetery botanist. And Caspar remembers his great-uncle, who died tragically in the war as a child and has haunted the family history ever since. With every kilometer driven, the three grow closer together and yearn for an answer to the question that gets louder grave by grave: What do the dead tell us if we listen to them?
A fast-paced novel full of laconic humor: Jaroslav Rudiš embarks on a high-speed odyssey along the borders of the European center and what holds us together.
