![]() 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. ![]() February 2018 selection for the NYRB Classics Book Club. ![]()
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