Description
Set around a lakeside summer house near Berlin, this haunting, intricately layered novel traces the lives of the people who build, inhabit, claim, and lose the property across a turbulent century. As Germany moves through war, dictatorship, displacement, division, and reunification, the house becomes a silent witness to competing ideologies and the private costs of historical upheaval. Through a shifting chorus of voices—including architects, refugees, landowners, and heirs—Jenny Erpenbeck explores memory, belonging, inheritance, and the ways political violence reshapes ordinary lives. Poetic and formally inventive, the novel transforms one place into a resonant portrait of twentieth-century Germany.
Available Editions
paperback
Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
Published Jun 1, 2018
192 pages
ISBN: 9783328102519
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Details
First Published
2008
Language
deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Heimsuchung by Jenny Erpenbeck.