Thallos found the rope ladder still fixed to the siege ramp when the sun was two hands above the ridge, and he did not want to climb it. At the top the wind came off the desert flat and dry, carrying nothing. That was the first thing he noticed and could not...
An East Berlin records clerk encounters her own name inside the surveillance system she has served for years. The discovery changes how she reads both its files and the people around her.
On the eve of her execution, Joan of Arc receives a final visit from the voices that have guided her since childhood and learns the truth about their origin, forcing a choice between survival and the meaning she has built her life around.
