A House Without Memories

Every morning, an elderly woman wakes up at the same time for no apparent reason and goes to a remote forest, where one day she finds a twelve-year-old boy. The boy is alive and healthy, but he cannot explain what happened to him—he doesn’t speak at all. The only one who can help is Pietro Gerber, a Florentine hypnotist, a specialist in working with traumatized children. Gerber, barely surviving everything that fell to his lot in the novel “The House of Voices,” takes on the case. The boy’s voice returns—and this voice tells a terrible story that is not his own. A story that happened many years ago; it included kidnappings, disappearances, murders, explosions—and orcs. And a child who got lost in the adult world of inexplicable horror and never found a way out. Gerber listens, gradually sinking into the nightmare—while behind him watches a storyteller, a guardian of stories whose presence makes your blood run cold....