The Cold Centre
The Cold Centre Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was…
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The Cold Centre
Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis.
Did she come in contact with a contaminated truck from the Ukraine? Quickly returning to the city, he tries to reconstruct the events of a few days so many years ago, and he revisits and questions his own memories of working in the chilling "cold centre"--the air conditioning plant for the East German party newspaper. Was he a cog at the heart of the system, failing to prevent a tragic accident?
Can he find out what happened before it's too late? He soon begins to lose control over his days in Berlin, entering into a desperate search for orientation over a fracture in his own life--one he has