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A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac 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.… (más)
Es doloroso ver cómo en la cubierta pone "Brandenburgo" en lugar de "Brandeburgo", "Brandemburgo" o "Brandenburg". Esto te hace sospechar que la traducción no sea buena.
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As the day is long and the world is old, many people can stand in the same place, one after another. - Marie in 'Woyzeck', by Georg Büchner.
If I came to you, O woods of my youth, could you Promise me peace once again? -Friedrich Hölderlin.
When the house is finished, Death enters. -Arabic proverb
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For Doris Kaplan.
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APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND years ago, a glacier advanced until it reached a large outcropping of rock that now is nothing more than a gentle hill above where the house stands.
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Until the time comes when a different house will be built on this same spot, the landscape, if ever so briefly, resembles itself once more.
A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac 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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