A dead professor. A sealed archive. A document that was never supposed to be found.
Mara Voss arrives in Vilnius on a linguistics fellowship, chasing a manuscript connected to her grandmother's buried past. Within three weeks, her sponsor is found dead in the university archive at night. The official conclusion: natural causes. Mara doesn't believe it.
As she works deeper into the restricted cases of a Cold War-era archive, she uncovers suppressed documents, institutional silence, and a corridor hidden inside the university walls for sixty years. The people managing the archive's secrets are the same people who invited her in — and the manuscript she came to find is connected to something far more dangerous than forgotten language.
The Sleepers of Vilnius is a literary mystery set in the archives and courtyards of one of Europe's oldest universities — a novel about what institutions bury, who carries the weight of keeping it buried, and what happens when someone finally starts reading what was never meant to be read.
