Bastian Beyer

La dernière course raconte une histoire vraie de 1913, dans les sommets des Monts Krkonoše. Emerich Rath est le seul Allemand à participer aux courses tchèques, alors que les autres Allemands des Monts Krkonoše les boycottent. L'ami de Hanč, Václav Vrbata, vient assister à la course. En mars 1913, ils se retrouvent au départ d'une course importante. Mais après le premier tour, une tempête de neige éclate et la course pour la première place se transforme rapidement en une course pour la vie - une histoire d'héroïsme, de courage, de volonté et d'amitié commence à s'écrire.

Widow Clara and widower Ulf have an unusual commonality: Both mourn the loss of their spouses, but they cannot have them declared dead. Although there are no official doubts about the alleged suicide of Ulf's wife Anke or about the fatal glacier crash of Clara's husband Enno, the officer who complies with the paragraph insists on a corpse for the notarization - and that does not exist in either case. In order to at least support each other in letting go emotionally, Clara and Ulf set up an informal two-person self-help group after meeting them by chance. The self-confident perfumer and successful novelist soon awaken surprising feelings that go far beyond the usual grief work. However, the two are even more astonished to discover that their spouses seem to have certain similarities. A treacherous photo of Anke with Enno, her disappearance almost at the same time and the complicity in a fraud worth millions raise the suspicion that the departed have made off together.