Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got supernatural powers, which completely take over his life.
Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.
In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new.
Эта реальная история, произошедшая в Шумперском районе в мае 1945 года. Побег Агнес, немецкой жены чешского лесничего Яна Ольшана, окутан тайной. Только она сама знает, кто и почему ее ищет. Конец войны, тяжелое время, в приграничье возвращаются чехи из внутренних районов страны, возникают отряды гвардии и приходят солдаты. Судьба сводит вместе изгоя Яна и его немецкого шурина Юргена, который только что вернулся с Восточного фронта. Оба ищут одну и ту же женщину, Агнес. А она в это время бежит через дикие леса, преследуемая самым могущественным человеком в окрестностях из-за того ужаса, которому стала свидетельницей. Через горы ведет тернистый путь познания судьбоносности союза Яна и Агнес…
