Visitation [Paperback]

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,Love, death and passion, from the Weimar Republic to the Fall of theBerlin Wall. Wonderful German prose.Jenny Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads usoff-centre, as one travels into a vortexinto the most haunted and haunting territory. This is a novel of profound clarity and precise grief.The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligenceand tenderness at work behind her restrained unvarnished prose, isoverwhelming.Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene.Erpenbeck will get under your skin.Bernofskys translation vividly captures the rhythm of Erpenbecks original and allows us to experience this stunning parable of change and brevity in all its beauty and wonder.Erpenbecks voice is fresh and independent and very convincing.A bestseller in Germany,