In his new novel, award-winning bestselling author Thomas Hettche explores the greatest of all emotions, telling the tender and passionate story of a late, unconditional love.
Max is an ocularist who makes artificial eyes. In his workshop, he shapes delicate glass spheres, adding coloured veins, irises and pupils. Max understands the silent language of glances. But at the age of sixty, he no longer believes in love at first sight. Until one summer evening, when he meets Anna and is overwhelmed by feelings of unprecedented intensity.
Anna feels the same way, but she is married, and so the two only ever have a few days to live out what cannot be. But the memories, the dreams, the shadows are always there. This plunges Max into despair, because he knows he has found his great love. And he senses that she will put him to an eerie test.
