The TRANSCRIPT: Confession He Was Made to Write

When Vilem Roth wakes, there is a man in the chair across his bedroom - a man Vilem condemned to the salt works nine years ago. The man is drinking from his water glass. The man is dead. On the bedside table is a sheaf of papers tied with black ribbon: the transcript of testimony Vilem is to give the following morning, against himself, at the Eighth Tribunal. The transcript is in his own voice. It ends mid-sentence. In the careful procedural language of a city that has begun to administer its own quiet erasures, The Transcript is the record of a translator who has spent his career altering the words of others and who must now alter the words being readied against him - even as the people he has erased begin, one by one, to return. A Kafkaesque psychological thriller for readers of The Trial, The Memory Police, and The Master and Margarita.

Pages: 260, Paperback, Independently published