POKORA (Humility)

Desire. Power. Submission.
What will you lose in the fight for dignity?
An epic novel of revolution, war and love.

11 November 1918. Leutnant Alois Pokora steps out of the hospital into the streets of revolutionary Berlin. The old world is over.

La Belle Époque died in the trenches of the Great War. A new world is being born in pain: on the Western Front and during the revolution sweeping through defeated Germany.

Alois did not belong to the old world, nor does he belong to the new one. Son of a miner from Upper Silesia, by a twist of fate uprooted from his proletarian family, he encounters contempt and rejection everywhere. Lonely and persecuted, he believes only in an erotic relationship with the perverse, dominant Agnes. Yet in a world that has ended, nothing is real.

Pokora is a gripping novel of love, war and revolution. An epic story about Berlin and Silesia, about Germans and Poles, about social and ethnic divisions. About desire, power, submission and the price one pays in the struggle for dignity.

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