Jaroslav Rudiš: Wo die Toten sprechen

Lorenzo, Caspar, and Miss Detroit—three friends caught between middle age and weariness with life—set off on an unusual road trip through Central Europe. In the trunk: the stolen bones of a Nazi criminal—an absurd mission that takes them through cemeteries, landscapes, and Europe’s repressed history.

While Lorenzo works on a poem about dead poets, Miss Detroit dreams of cemetery botany, and Caspar is haunted by memories of his family history. With each stop, the three grow closer not only geographically but also emotionally—and grapple with the question of what the dead tell us about the living.

Jaroslav Rudišis a writer, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his novels have been translated from Czech and published to date.*Winterberg’s Last Journey*, the first novel Jaroslav Rudiš wrote in German, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2019.

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Thomas Schaeferis a freelance editor, literary critic, and author for publications including taz, Titanic, Eulenspiegel, and konkret.