![]() ![]() As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors-a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. ![]() Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. A wealthy family tries-and fails-to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. ![]()
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