GuiltLESS

What is guilt?

Is a life without guilt even conceivable? Can feelings of guilt be disposed of like an outworn coat? And if guilt burns into you like a port-wine stain, how powerful is an invisible companion like that? To what extent does it direct the fate of those who must bear that burden?

Amadeus Glückskind - his surname means 'Lucky Kid'- is fifteen when Jonathan Puck, the weird class genius, the outsider both feared and mocked by his classmates because of his intelligence is found outside the school gates shortly before midnight and detained by the police. The schoolboy claims to have stabbed and killed his father. Both teachers and pupils are in a state of shock. No one suspects that Amadeus and his three best friends know all too well why Jonathan had set off for the school on the evening of the murder.

Twenty-eight years later, Amadeus Glückskind, now a restorer married to his great love Fanny Goldbach, a cellist, and father of a son, flies to the Yemen, where an encounter with serious consequences takes place in Sanaa. On a long journey by car to Shibam, Amadeus learns what really happened in those dramatic hours twenty-eight years ago. Much remains shrouded in mystery, however. After his return he finds a letter that devastates him: a story of guilt and forgiveness, love and death is revealed to him. The long journey of Amadeus Glückskind is far from over.

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