The Gate of Dawn
English


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About The Book

Welcome to 1880s Vilnius a volatile Northeastern metropolis where Balts Germans Poles Russians and Jews compete for a place in the sun. After sustaining fatal burns in a fire instigated by his rivals textile magnate Hermann Lichtner spends his final days in a shabby infirmary. In a hasty and bizarre deathbed transaction he gives his fifteen-year-old daughter Renate in marriage to Thaddeus a widowed Polish farmer who rejects social hierarchy and toils side by side with his peasants. Renates arrival quickly disrupts the bucolic flow of life and antagonizes every member of the household. During an excursion to the city Renate rekindles an affair with a young Jewish painter who sells his watercolors outside the Gate of Dawn chapel. While her despairing husband might look the other way his servants will not stand by and watch while their adored master is humiliated. Taking us from the cobblestone streets of old Vilnius swarming with imperial gendarmes to the misty bogs of rural Lithuania where pagan deities still rule The Gate of Dawn is a folkloric tale of rivalry conspiracy and revenge.
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