Visitation

Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

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.

One of the finest, most exciting authors alive - In Visitation, the achievement and resonance are massive - The amount of emotional engagement Erpenbeck manages to win from us, in a mere 150 pages, is just one proof of her masteryAn extraordinarily strong book by a major German author, ingeniously translated, produced with love. Michel Faber, Guardian

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

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ISBN 13	9781846271908
ISBN 10	1846271908
Title	Visitation
Author	Jenny Erpenbeck
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2011-07-07
Number of pages	176
Prizes	Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Award 2011 (UK), Long-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2011 (UK)
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