Una casa en Brandemburgo

What remains when everything changes? On a plot of land by a lake in Brandenburg, a house changes hands as the twentieth century unfolds its procession of wars, exiles, revolutions, and shifting borders. Its inhabitants believe they have found a home; history repeatedly proves otherwise. Through the twelve lives that unfold in this single location, Jenny Erpenbeck weaves a fascinating, multi-voiced narrative. Love, loss, memory, and the longing for rootedness run through these pages with the same intensity as the political transformations that shaped Germany and Europe. With exceptional narrative ambition and prose that is as original as it is moving, Erpenbeck transforms a patch of land into the setting for one of contemporary German literature’s most memorable novels: a luminous, melancholic meditation on time, the fragility of existence, and the persistence of place.