After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought
under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find
themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This
is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the
tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate
in the decades of violence and political confusion that follow. In
this extraordinary novel, Diane Meur calls upon an unusual
narrator: the ancestral house itself-the House of Shadows of the
title-which, from behind its unmoving facade, watches the comings
and goings of generations of inhabitants. The house is everywhere
in the story, hearing and observing everything; it encompasses all
the shadows of a past that it knows better than its occupants do.
But it envies the mobility of those who reside there, and though
the years pass, nothing changes for the house. Like the house, the
Zemka women-mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces-are condemned
to a certain immobility. At home, they wait for love, passion, and
stories of the calamitous events on the horizon. On the threshold
of the twentieth century, only one young woman manages to escape
from beneath the weight of her family's house and the historical
conflagrations to come.
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