From Germany's most acclaimed young writer, an exquisitely crafted, stealthily chilling story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts. By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence - a violence which grows darker still over the course of the century: a mad woman drowned, Jewish persecution, the arrival of the Red Army... Reaching far into the past, and recovering what was lost and what was buried, the author tells a story both beautiful and