Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a
startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a
cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must
find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986
Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 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. Did she come in contact with a contaminated truck from
the Ukraine? 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 never gotten over. Written in
Parei's characteristically precise prose, The Cold Centre is a
timely reminder of how we react to accidents-nuclear and otherwise-
and a bleakly realistic description of East Berlin before the Wall
fell. Its tight and dizzying structure keeps readers on the edge of
their seats as the narrator tries to solve his mystery.
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