Description
Winterberg’s Last Journey follows its two main characters on an eclectic, tragicomic train journey through Central Europe, “the beautiful landscape of battlefields, cemeteries and ruins”. When Czech nurse Jan Kraus is charged with caring for 99-year-old Wenzel Winterberg, a Sudetenland German expelled from his Bohemian homeland after the Second World War, he believes their time together will be limited. But one night, Kraus casually remarks that Winterberg shares his name with the town of Winterberg, now Vimperk in Bohemia, and the old man is suddenly filled with new life. He becomes obsessed with uncovering the fate of his lost love, Lenka Morgenstern, and drags Kraus on a winding train journey from Berlin to Sarajevo, all the while suffering his regular “historical fits”. Their only guide is Winterberg’s 1913 Baedeker for Austria-Hungary, the last edition ever issued.
Information
Author: Rudiš Jaroslav
Language: English
Publication date: July 1, 2024
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Czech fiction in english, Czech authors in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 443
ISBN/EAN: 9781914990243