The Tragic Fate of Moritz Toth (Peter Owen World Series: Serbia Book 3)

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Serbia Moritz Tóth is a former punk rocker working for no one. Tobias Keller is an Adviser for Moral Issues working for the Man upstairs. Both their lives are changed when Moritz receives an unexpected offer from the local Employment Office to become a prompter with the Budapest Opera. As a strange series of divinely-inspired events sees a morose Moritz re-acquaint himself with his old violin, Tobias is facing trial for having applied 'the faculty of his free will with the intention of exerting his influence on subject Moritz Tóth'. Dana Todorovic's novel is a tale of celestial bureaucracy and the restorative power of Puccini. With notes of Kafka and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita , welcome to the strange, thrilling and tragic fate of Moritz Tóth. A chain of unlikely events puts a violin back in the hands of ex-punk rocker and down-at-out Mortiz Toth. Tobias Keller—a Moral Issues Advisor and assistant to the Great Overseer—is under investigation for his role in the affair. To escape his certain fate, he will need to make a compelling case for the moral necessity of interfering in Moritz's life. Full of riddles and the Kafkaesque, Todorovic's debut novel is a charming and original tale of divine bureaucracy and the restorative power of Puccini. Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Serbia, in association with Istros Books. Dana Todorović ; Translated From The Serbian By The Author. Translated From The Serbian.