Visitation. Jenny Erpenbeck - Hardcover

Jenny Erpenbeck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846271894 ISBN 13: 9781846271892

Publisher: Portobello Books, 2010

Synopsis

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 color 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 neighbors 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 an exquisitely crafted, stealthily chilling story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts.

About this title

About the Author

JENNY ERPENBECK is author of The Old Child & The Book of Words, published by Portobello. Her fiction is published in fourteen languages

Review

The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained unvarnished prose, is overwhelming. --Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love

Edition details

• Publisher: Portobello Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846271894
• ISBN 13: 9781846271892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176