受人景仰的医生,一生对妻子唯唯诺诺,却突然将她乱斧砍死。
勤勤恳恳的博物馆看守,二十三年守护一尊雕像,退休前几分钟把它砸得稀烂。
矮小的男人,总被人讥讪“矮子”“侏儒”“地精”,入狱后却获得了人生初次敬重。
在这里接受审判的人都曾努力活着:兢兢业业的医生、操持家庭的主妇、说话结巴的公司职员、从战争中幸存的法官。
某一天,他们失控、偷窃、杀人、自杀,成了自己罪行的囚徒,责罚永无止境。
作者简介
费迪南德·冯·席拉赫,德国律师、小说家。
1964年生于慕尼黑。1994年起担任刑事律师,委托人既有当时的工业巨头、知名人士,也有各色社会平民。
2009年,根据真实经历写下的处女作《罪行》出版,引起巨大反响,登上《镜报》《明镜周刊》图书榜头名,获德国文坛重要奖项克莱斯特文学奖,及《慕尼黑晚报》“年度文学之星”。
2010年出版《罪责》,2018年出版《罪罚》,三部曲共在《明镜周刊》图书榜上榜119周。
此外著有《科里尼案件》等作品,累计销量已超过1000万册,被译为40余种语言。
A respected doctor, obedient to his wife all his life, suddenly slashes her to death with an axe.
Dedicated museum keeper who guarded a statue for 23 years and smashed it to pieces minutes before retiring.
Small men, always ridiculed by people, "dwarf", "gnome", but after being imprisoned, he won the first respect in life.
The people on trial here have all tried to stay alive: the dedicated doctor, the homemaker, the stuttering office worker, the judge who survived war.
One day, they lose control, steal, kill, commit suicide, become prisoners of their own crimes, and the punishment is endless.
About the author
Ferdinand von Schirach was a German lawyer and novelist.
He was born in Munich in 1964. Since 1994, he has been a criminal lawyer, representing both industrial magnates and celebrities of the time, as well as various ordinary people in society.
In 2009, based on the real experience of the first novel "Crime" published, caused a huge response, on the "Mirror" and "Der Spiegel" book list, won the important German literary award Kleist Literature, and "Munich Evening" "literary Star of the year".
He published Guilt in 2010 and Punishment in 2018, and the trilogy spent 119 weeks on Der Spiegel's book list.
He is also the author of the Colini Case, which has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.