The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our
protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a
Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best
friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in
general. One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping
a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled
streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later
he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate
each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript—a collection of
fragments on the Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and
Belgrade—he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric
mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community.
As the narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to
see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city
and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his increasingly
passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder.
Following in the footsteps of Foucault’s Pendulum, Leeches is a
cerebral adventure into the underground worlds of secret societies
and conspiracy theories.
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