The star of European literature, Belgian Amelie Nothomb, became famous after the publication of her first book, “The Hygiene of a Killer.” The public and critics were immediately captivated by the exquisite style and unusual plot of this novel. Nobel Prize-winning author Pretextat Tax is ill and his days are numbered. Reporters besiege the celebrity, hoping to get an exclusive interview. But only one young journalist manages to get the old misanthrope to talk and learn the terrible secret of his strange, ghostly life... Amelie Nothomb’s novel “Quicksilver” is a brilliant experience in penetrating the secret corners of the human soul. This is a story of crimes generated by dark, destructive passions, a story of great love that brings death. To love so much as to commit a crime for the sake of love—isn’t that possible? But to love in such a way as to doom or even take the life of a loved one so that he never belongs to anyone again - does this often happen?