New Directions Publishing Corporation
October 2010
On Sale: September 30, 2010
192 pages ISBN: 081121835X EAN: 9780811218351 Kindle: B0047O2J86 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europeβs most significant contemporary authors.
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeckβs grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions and fates of its inhabitants. Elegant and poetic, Visitation forms a literary mosaic of the last century, tearing open wounds and offering moments of reconciliation, with its drama and its exquisite evocation of a landscape no political upheaval can truly change.
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