Visitation
Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-2018
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This is a story that goes inside a house to peel back layer after layer of German history and reveal the beating heart and unquiet memories beneath. By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows darker still over the course of the century: the Jewish neighbours disappear one by one; the Red Army requisitions the house, burning the furniture and trampling the garden; a young East German attempts to swim his way to freedom in the West; a couple return from brutal exile in Siberia and leave the house to their granddaughter, who is forced to relinquish her claim upon it and sell to new owners intent upon demolition. Reaching far into the past, and recovering what was lost and what was buried, Jenny Erpenbeck tells a story both beautiful and brutal, about the things that haunt a home.
Main title:
Visitation / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
Author:
Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-, authorBernofsky, Susan, translator
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2018.
Collation:
510 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: 2010.
ISBN:
9781846276743 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.92G
LC class:
PT2665.R59
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2241959