Those cold eyes
Frost comes from the soul. A historical novel from the bestselling author of When you see the sea.
War plays a cruel game of chess with people – pawns get mixed up, and the colour of the uniform does not matter much. During the Nazi occupation of Smolensk, charming Russian girl Neonila meets Emil, a young Czech forced to fight for the Wehrmacht. When they settle in Czechoslovakia after the war, the stigma of collaboration hangs over them, leaving them with no choice but to live a cautious life in fear. Can they keep their past a secret and, after everything they have experienced, look at the world with anything other than cold eyes? And can fear justify cruelty committed against others? Scarlett Wilková returns with her second novel, once again opening up a sensitive and rarely reflected topic of modern history.
Scarlett Wilková
Scarlett Wilková is a journalist who has been writing since graduating, when she joined the editorial staff of an in-house magazine in Ostrava. She then worked for various media outlets, and for the last 20 years she has written primarily for Magazín DNES, focusing on interviews and social trend topics. She also participates in non-profit projects dealing with the lives of senior citizens. She collaborates with Post Bellum, the organisation running the Memory of Nations database, for which she recorded the memories of Greek witnesses that inspired her debut novel, When you see the sea. Her second novel, Those cold eyes, touches on the theme of collaboration with the Nazi regime during the Second World War. She returns to Greece with the book Ten times is enough. Her novel When the dogs came depicts the lives of the post-war Beskids inhabitants.
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