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The House by the Lake (Paperback)
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The House by the Lake (Paperback)
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List price R352
Loot Price R291
Discovery Miles 2 910
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE
ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A superb portrait of
twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which
was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable
book.' Tom Holland 'Personal and panoramic, heart-wrenching yet
uplifting, this is history at its most alive.' A.D. Miller 'A
passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor
_______________________________________ In 2013, Thomas Harding
returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin
which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power.
What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A
concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin
Wall had stood for nearly three decades. In a bid to save the house
from demolition, Thomas began to unearth the history of the five
families who had lived there: a nobleman farmer, a prosperous
Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children
and a Stasi informant. Discovering stories of domestic joy and
contentment, of terrible grief and tragedy, and of a hatred handed
down through the generations, a history of twentieth century
Germany and the story of a nation emerged.
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