• Arnaldur Indridason’s Icelandic mystery novel
Kältezone (The Draining Lake)
• Siegfried Lenz’s satiric collection
Die Erzählungen (The Stories)
• An oil lamp (his house has no electricity or running water)
• A candle and a box of matches
• A pipe and some mild tobacco
• An 18th-century German physicist’s journals in three bound volumes, which Trinks found in a box of modern books he purchased at auction in Sweden
• A street performer’s advertisement, found in one of the journals: “He takes a pot of scalding oil, and throws it by great ladles full directly at the Ladies, without spoiling their cloaths, or burning their skin.”
• A thermos of black tea
