Secret Pack Chronicle

In a second-hand bookshop near Prague's Klementinum, a story unfolds about precious books, talking rats, magical ink, parental love and a great flood. Its main heroine, eleven-year-old Adina, lives alone with her father, the owner of the bookshop. One day, on the top shelf of a bookcase, she finds a collection of poems. It was written by her mother shortly before her death. But the verses are in French. And then Adina makes another amazing discovery: in the stockroom, she catches a rat, or rather a rat-man, hunched over a book in the candlelight, muttering something to himself. But the rodent can not only read and speak many languages, it can also write. His name is Aleph Rattus, Alfred for short, and he is just writing his memoirs – they go all the way back to 1455, when the rat-man licked some magical ink in the workshop of the inventor of printing, Johannes Gutenberg…