Süskind, Patrick

The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger’s bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling.

Jonathan Noel, hlavní postava novely Holub, je podivín, jenž každou změnu ve svém životě vnímá jako ohrožení.