A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wildernesshe is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows between these two narrative threads, andpulled together in Mathias nards enchanting, brilliant, erudite prosetime itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.

Paperback | 192 pages | 5.00″ x 8.00″