
Visitation
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Contemporary.
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck?s 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 reunificat...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Contemporary.
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Alastair Humphreys
“I always enjoy those endofyear round up lists of 'Best Books', 'The Books I've Enjoyed This Year' and so on. So here is my contribution. Good books I have read recently:”
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