Dan Vyleta Knihy

Ľudia s nečistými myšlienkami tu boli označení dymom, ktorý im unikal z tela a bol znakom ich úpadku. Šľachta nevypúšťala dym, bol to dôkaz ich cnosti a práva vládnuť, zatiaľ čo nižšie spoločenské vrstvy sa utápali v hriechu a sadziach. Celkom čudné, no celkom skutočné Anglicko. Elitná internátna škola, kde vychovávajú synov zámožných ľudí, aby podľa práva prvorodených prevzali moc. Učitelia so záhadnými prepojeniami na súperiace politické frakcie na najvyšších vládnych úrovniach. Traja mladí ľudia, ktorí zistia, že všetko, čo ich učia, je lož – toto poznanie ich môže stáť život. Majestátny kaštieľ, kde v podkrovných izbách a v skrytom laboratóriu číhajú tajomstvá. Milostný trojuholník. Zúfalé prenasledovanie. Revolucionári a tajná polícia. Náboženskí fanatici a bezcitní vedci. Vražda. Londýn plný nebezpečenstiev a divov. Strastiplný vzťah medzi matkou a dcérou a matkou a synom. Nečakaní zloduchovia a nečakaní hrdinovia. Chladný rozum a vášeň. Bohatí a chudobní. Správne a nesprávne, hoci nie je jasné, čo je čo. Toto je svet Dymu, majstrovské rozprávačské dielo, dickensovsky spletitý príbeh vyznačujúci sa urputnou silou predstavivosti, bohatou atmosférou a napätím.

Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, "Pavel and I" mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health. A friendship of mutual need and genuine tenderness develops. When a dead Russian spy is delivered to Pavel's frozen apartment, Pavel and Anders find themselves caught in the beginnings of a Cold War conspiracy of epic proportions. Complete with a secret love affair between Pavel and the German mistress of a menacing British military official, and peopled with pimps, prostitutes, Russian and English spies and a Lord-of-the-Flies-style gang of child thieves, "Pavel and I" is a unique, breathtaking noir novel.

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.