Those cold eyes
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Those cold eyes
The frost comes from the soul. A historical novel by the bestselling author of When You See the Sea.
War plays a cruel game of chess with people, the pawns get mixed up, the colour of the uniform doesn't matter so much. During the Nazi occupation of Smolensk, Neonila, a charming Russian girl, and Emil, a Czech youth forced to fight for the Wehrmacht, meet. When they settle together in Czechoslovakia after the war, the stigma of collaboration hovers over them and they are left with nothing but a cautious life of fear. Will they repress their past and be able to look at the world with anything other than cold eyes after what they've been through? And can fear justify cruelty committed against others? Scarlett Wilk comes up with her second novel, in which she once again opens up a sensitive and little-reflected topic of modern history.
Scarlett Wilk
Scarlett Wilková is a journalist who has been writing since she joined the editorial team of a corporate magazine in Ostrava after graduating from high school. She then worked for various media outlets, and for the last twenty years she has been writing mainly for Magazín DNES, where she focuses on interviews and topics related to social trends. He is also involved in non-profit projects related to the issues of life of the elderly. It cooperates with Post Bellum, which operates the Memory of the Nation database. For it, she recorded the memories of Greek eyewitnesses, which inspired her debut novel When You See the Sea. In his second novel, Those Cold Eyes, he touches on the theme of collaboration with the Nazi regime during World War II. He returns to Greece with Ten Times and Enough. Her novel When the Dogs Came depicts the fate of the inhabitants of post-war Beskydy.
