»The German Carlos Ruiz Zafón« – La Voz de Galicia
Leipzig, the city of books. 1930. In her stepfather’s library, Amalia Lux comes across seven ex libris depicting mysterious masks, signed with »L. Gora«. When several murders occur, suspicion falls on Amalia, who was brought to Germany from the colonies against her will as a child. What is the connection between the ex libris and the dead? Suddenly a hunted woman herself, Amalia sets out in search of the missing artist.
Monaco, the city without bookshops. 1970. The student Timm is tasked by an elderly baroness with researching the life of a mysterious painter. Together with a ballerina who can no longer dance and an eccentric author who no longer wants to write, Timm stumbles upon the trail of a stolen library and touches upon secrets that have been buried for forty years.
