Winterberg's Last Journey - paperback

Described by The Spectator as 
 
'European history being retold as a beautiful tragicomedy' and
'In Winterberg’s Last Journey, Rudis has created a European Forrest Gump.'
 
Full review here: 
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/haunted-by-the-past-winterbergs-last-journey-by-jaroslav-rudis-reviewed/
 
London Magazine describes it as:
'excellent writing' 
'Winterberg is living in the past without a future to anticipate' 
'A lack of self-awareness doesn't prevent Winterberg being amusing'
 
'an abiding and romantic affection for the history of European railways'  - TheTLS
 
'a highly engaging adventure with both historical depth and comic breadth' - Rough Ghosts blog
 
'Winterberg’s Last Journey is a brilliant tragicomic novel, action-packed and immensely European' - The Berliner Magazine
 
Winterberg's Last Journey
by Jaroslav Rudiš
Translated by Kris Best
 
When Czech geriatric nurse Jan Kraus is charged with the care of 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 a casual remark from Kraus one night – ‘it’s interesting; your name is Winterberg, and I came from Winterberg, from Vimperk in Bohemia, which used to be called Winterberg’ – sparks a new life in the old man. Winterberg becomes obsessed with uncovering the fate of his lost love, German-Jewish woman Lenka Morgenstern. Kraus is then dragged along by Winterberg on a winding train journey from Berlin to Sarajevo, all the while dealing with Winterberg’s regular ‘historical fits’. Their only guide is Winterberg’s Baedeker for Austria-Hungary from 1913 – the last edition ever issued.
 
'Winterberg's Last Joiurney is compelling, melancholy, and genuinely funny, drawing readers deep into the heart of Europe's 20th century trauma as viewed from the present day. Critics have praised it as ‘a haunting exploration of history in the area where two World Wars began’, with some calling Winterberg 'a European Forrest Gump' and others comparing it to Kerouac's On the Road and Chaplin's The Tramp.
 
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