A novel of at least 900 pages. Crossed destinies of Mittle/European Jewish-Austrian family, American chessist of vague origin, couple of European dictators, lots of spies and 3 couples in love in Italy, France and Denmark.
Quest for family tree, happiness and forged artifacts and diaries, fall of communism and dawn of rettotism in the heart of Europe. Lost letter, fotos, messages and chests full of precious documents.
Also about writers and publishers and film makers and political correctness.
Everything began in Budapest in national theater where stuttering souffleur gets fired and out of despire travels to Dalmatio into a monaster to take a vow of silence... During 1930s a man much older but very much resembling him is seen as a member of Singing Carmelites show, a decadent vaudeville with drag queens and women with d...cks, on the way to Berlin only to be banned there and sent to first concentracion camps. He is old under heavy make-up, kind of old clown from the pages of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
In the mean time in the office of Edgar J. Hoover...
There will be nuke tests, monks' petition to USSR and USA presidents etc...
If you were a book...
21 Feb '18 16:09
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