About the Book: Silent Angel
May, 1945. Carrying the coat of a comrade who died in his place, German soldier
Hans Schnitzler wanders the bombed-out streets of Cologne. In search of the dead
mans widow, he meets a woman as lost and grief-stricken as himself. At first,
the two strangers envy the dead and struggle to imagine a future in their
shattered world. But slowly, they begin to find solace in each other-until they
realise, together in a ruined apartment without food or family, that they have
found a final, flickering ember of hope. Unpublished during his lifetime and
recovered decades after his death, Heinrich