EAN: 9781526624062

THE DUTCH HOUSE - ANN PATCHETT KARTONIERT (TB)

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond
between two siblings  the house of their childhood  and a past that will not let them go - from
the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto 'The book of the
autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases
perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally
justified. Her best yet  which is saying something' - John Boyne 'Do you think it's possible to
ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car  parked in
front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer. Danny Conroy grows up in the
Dutch House  a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent  Danny has
his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve  with her wall of black hair  her wit  her brilliance. Life is
coherent  played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of
their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it 
her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives.
The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter  knocking in vain
on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their
mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known. Told with Ann Patchett's
inimitable blend of humour  rage and heartbreak  The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story
of a paradise lost  of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our
whole lives.

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