法律與良知，在審判的天平上，究竟孰輕孰重？
人又應該為自己的過錯付出多大的代價？
換做是你，會選擇接受刑罰，
還是寧可背負一輩子的罪咎？
罪與罰、公平與正義，從來都不簡單。
本書原文書名為: Schuld
在罪的深淵中，人無所掩蔽，
只剩下赤裸裸的存在。
犯了錯的人，未必都以接受刑罰作結，
但罪咎可能就此生根，以超乎想像的方式，崩毀原來的世界。
兩名女子殺人，各自被判無罪獲釋；一個司機阻止了可能的變態謀殺，卻遭判徒刑。一對伴侶殺了強暴犯，一生飽受不堪過往糾纏。九名管樂隊的凡夫俗子毀了某個女孩的人生，竟沒有任何人背負刑責……
費迪南．馮．席拉赫將刑事案件化為偉大的文學作品。這位德國最會說故事的辯護律師，再次執起毫無矯飾的紀實之筆，以其獨一無二的語言，輕聲但堅定的對善與惡、有罪或無罪，以及我們每個人的道德責任，提出更尖銳而核心的質問。
On a sweltering day in August, a small town drunkenly celebrates its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads police to find a young woman brutally beaten,
raped, and thrown under the floorboards of the very stage on which her attackers had just played a polka. An eight-member brass band composed of respectable family men with respectable day
jobs is charged with the crime. A neophyte defense lawyer, still wet behind the ears and breaking in his attache case, takes on the trial, only to lose his innocence in the process.
So begins Guilt, Ferdinand von Schirach’s tense, riveting collection of stories based on real crimes he has known. In these brief, succinct tales, von Schirach calls into question the
nature of guilt and the toll it takes—or fails to take—on ordinary people. In “The Illuminati,” the popular mean crowd at an all-boys’ boarding school wages a vicious attack against an
outsider schoolmate, and ends up accidentally killing the boy’s beloved teacher. Attempting to hurdle through a midlife crisis, a housewife begins to steal trivial things no one will miss, an
act that gives her a rush and staves off depression in “Desire.” And in “Snow,” an old man whose home is used as a way station for a heroin ring agrees to protect the identity of the lead
drug runner, who receives his comeuppance in due course.
Compassionate and seen with the same cool, controlled eye that propelled Ferdinand von Schirach’s debut collection, Crime, onto best-seller lists, Guilt is a stunning follow-up from one of
Germany’s finest new writers.
作者簡介
費迪南．馮．席拉赫 Ferdinand von Schirach
1964年生於慕尼黑，自1994年起擔任執業律師，專司刑事案件。他的委託人包括前東德中央政治局委員君特．沙博夫斯基、前聯邦情報局特務諾貝特．尤瑞次科、工業鉅子、達官顯貴、中下階層人士及常民百姓。2009年出版處女作《罪行》，引起廣大迴響，德國讀者及媒體好評不斷，售出32國版權。2010年獲《慕尼黑晚報》選為年度文學之星。同年獲頒德國文壇重要獎項克萊斯特文學獎。2010年第二本書《罪咎》出版，立即登上《明鏡週刊》暢銷書榜冠軍。
《罪行》及《罪咎》獲得60萬書迷擁戴，電影版權皆已由《香水》的出品者康士坦丁電影公司買下，第一個改編故事由以《當櫻花盛開》聞名國際的導演多莉絲．朵利撰寫劇本及執導，於2011年開拍。
《罪行》中文版在台出版亦大獲讀者喜愛，上市未滿一週即登上《蘋果日報》當週統計全台暢銷小說榜第一名，且久踞不退，推薦之聲絡繹不絕。
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964. Since 1994, he has worked as a criminal defense lawyer in Berlin. Among his clients have been the former member of the Politburo Gunter
Schabowski, the former East German spy Norbert Juretzko, and members of the underworld.
