In post-war Lower Silesia, a family tries to recover a home. Rebuilding ordinary life also means confronting the histories attached to the place.
The regional setting matters because a house can outlast the people, borders and certainties that once defined it. The novel invites a slower reading of belonging and inheritance. Pick it for family history in which the landscape carries as much unresolved memory as the characters.
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.


