Black Dogs

A metaphorical novel about Europe’s past and future by the winner of the Booker Prize.

Once they were young, full of grand ideas, and the meaning of life seemed to lie in purifying humankind of filth by the fire of revolution. But evil is invulnerable if it lives in a reliable refuge—in the human mind. The sum of misfortunes won’t decrease while it dwells there. Without a revolution within the inner world, no matter how long it lasts, all those gigantic plans are meaningless. The author makes the heroine understand it when her universe shrinks to the walls of a nursing home room.