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Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possesion of the dead spy's secert soon begins and threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbour, Sonia.

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. When an unexpected house call leads Doctor Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Does one of these enigmatic neighbours have blood on their hands?

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire, anger, greed. It is 1909, and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin, and some seek to silence it forever. Enter Eleanor, a young woman with a strange power over Smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England. Running from her uncle and home, she finds shelter in a New York theatre troupe. 

German-Canadian writer Dan Vyleta, famous for his debut novel Pavel & I which gained international acclaim discusses his latest novel Smoke, which tells an alternate-history of 19th century Britain.

Berlin ligger i ruiner. Året er 1946. Det er endnu en af historiens koldeste vintre. Den amerikanske soldat Pavel Richter er af uvisse årsager blevet i den ugudelige by efter krigen. Anders er en tysk gadedreng. Da deres veje krydses, tager Pavel Anders under sine vinger, og sammen forsøger de at overleve i kulden og krigens efterdønninger.