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An excellent novel by a Czech author

In it, he loosely follows his best-known work An Escape to Hell, which became a bestseller among readers.

It's four years after the war and a psychiatric sanatorium in Bavaria, where mostly prominent people from fascist Germany are treated, a man is located, who doesn't know, what's his name, or who he was during the war. The only thing that is known about him is that he crashed his plane while escaping from Czechoslovakia. He speaks German, but as his memory gradually returns, he remembers other languages and fragments of the past that make up the mosaic of his previous life...