John T. Cullen Libri

Il 6 maggio 1937 una palla di fuoco squarcia il cielo sopra Lakehurst, presso New York. L'avveniristico dirigibile Hindenburg esplode e, in quaranta secondi, del gioiello della tecnologia tedesca non resta che cenere. E' la fine dell'ambizione al dominio dell'aria da parte del Terzo Reich. Dieci anni più tardi un giornalista svedese, Birger Lund, sopravvissuto alla tragedia, si mette in cerca di un'altra sopravvissuta, Marta, da lui conosciuta e amata proprio sull'Hindenburg. La trova a Roma, ma deve ripartire subito perchè ha deciso di seguire le tracce di Boysen, l'uomo che era al timone del dirigibile. Birger vuole infatti scoprire la verità sulla fine dell'Hindenburg per poter ricominciare a vivere ...

From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a space for himself and his wife, Sihem, at the crossroads of two troubled societies. Jaafari’s world is abruptly shattered when Sihem is killed in a suicide bombing.As evidence mounts that Sihem could have been responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Jaafari begins a tortured search for answers. Faced with the ultimate betrayal, he must find a way to reconcile his cherished memories of his wife with the growing realization that she may have had another life, one that was entirely removed from the comfortable, modern existence that they shared.