In the first year of the new millennium, a book came into my hands from which I learned that for twenty years I had lived in the house of a former SS man. The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine. 'A powerful and humane reminder that the horrors of the past century are inexhaustibly fascinating and reverberate today.' Observer In 1979, Stefan Hertmans fell in love with a beautiful dilapidated old house in Ghent in Belgium, which he lovingly rescued from decay, as it became his peaceful sanctuary. Now, all these years later, he learns that...
In the first year of the new millennium, a book came into my hands from which I learned that for twenty years I had lived in the house of a former SS ...