- Fiction, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Witches, History
Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Oliver Pötzsch
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 450
- Publisher
- AmazonCrossing, Produced by Melcher Media, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781611091496
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