everyone who has ever lived in an old house and has wondered about the people who have spent time there before will love this book. everyone who is interested in 20th century history will love this book. everyone who is interested in the everyday live will love it, everyone who is curious about n...
Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer whose Visitation is the story of Germany as seen through the lives of the residents of one house. (She's also stunningly beautiful, but that's neither here nor there.) The characters are largely tragic, mirroring the calamitous twentieth century in their country...
Possibly something like divine inspiration was required, although where such inspiration might come from was something neither mother nor father knew. One glance out the night-dark window at the shimmering snow, or even just the creaking of the window frame contracting in the cold, a sound made b...