Book of Clouds

A young Mexican woman adrift in post-unification Berlin encounters romance, violence, and revelation in this "stirring and lyrical first novel" (Paul Auster, award-winning author and filmmaker).

Having escaped her overbearing family in Mexico, Tatiana settles in the newly reunified city of Berlin, where she hopes to cultivate a life of solitude. But when she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive historian, Doktor Weiss, Tatiana's simple life becomes more complex—and more perilous....