In a small town somewhere in the Carpathians a mass grave is discovered in the ruins of a Roman fortress. As the locals suspect it to be a heritage of the criminal Ceausescu regime and they do not trust the current Bucharest government either, they enlist the help of Argentinean anthropologists who are flown in without delay. Starting at this point, Filip Florian develops in his debut novel “Little Fingers” a game ranging from the sinister to the grotesque, from reality to invention, a game in which suppressed guilt and suspicion are at the very center. As bizarre as the mountain-world of the Romanian Carpathians is how the German paper Frankfurter Rundschau describes the novel and its sparkling prose. The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees the book simultaneously as a political novel, an archaeological detective story and a clever attempt at employing literature as a way of bearing testimony to history.
(Published January, 6 on Perlentaucher.de, German website of book reviews and recommendations)
