The story of a man who was there on September 11, 2001, when the Towers collapsed. He became one of the nameless heroes who entered hell to search for survivors while finding the dead. Some were looking for themselves to cleanse themselves of their sins, some had a chance to help others…
The book is a testimony of a New York architect of Czech origin about one of the most difficult periods of modern American history, when the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center shook the whole country. The story is bordered by two holidays – Independence Days 2001 and 2002 – and is told in the first person by an author who was one of the main actors in the rescue work and the removal of debris at Ground Zero. The narrative takes place in three levels. The basic outline gives a broad brush description and reflects the author’s boundless admiration for his adoptive home, the island city of New York, its history and architecture. The second level is an inside view, a chronological testimony to the terrible apocalypse of the city and its individual participants. The third level is the metaphysical realm of the main characters’ dreams and their consciences, which influences their actions and shifts the focus of the scales of good and evil. The story is not only about the Towers, but also about the concept of the towers, about what it means to reach a personal peak, about the relationship between the peak and the complete bottom.
