Meroe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3954380722 ISBN 13: 9783954380725

Synopsis

A man sits in the Hôtel des Solitaires in Khartoum waiting for the police. To pass the time, he writes down his memories and reads in the diaries of Charles Gordon, who was beheaded by insurgents in 1885 as the British Governor General of the Egyptian Province of Sudan. The police officers want to ask him about the death of Else Sutter, a young archaeologist who mysteriously died during the excavations in the legendary royal city of Meroe. She had only recently come to the country to take on a job as an assistant to Heinrich Vollender, an opaque scientist digging for Christian antiquities in the Sudanese desert. There is evidence that Vollender used to be an East German spy, but no one can prove that. At the death of Else Sutter, however, he must have had his fingers in the play... Olivier Rolin designs a fascinating vexing game about failure as the essence of human life based on the fate of three men. A great novel, brilliantly told, profound and moving at the same time.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3954380722
• ISBN 13: 9783954380725
• Binding: Hardcover