A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope.
Second in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. This novel and the sequel The Queen of Nothing - are the winners of/won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020.
This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story.
Léto 1990: Několik málo týdnů po pádu Železné opony se v jednom jihočeském hostinci setkávají dva přátelé z mládí z Českých Budějovic – německý lékař Karl Tomaschek a český inženýr Jan Hadrava.