"Jenny Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us-off-centre, as one travels into a vortex-into the most haunted and haunting territory. This is a novel of profound clarity and precise grief."-Anne Michaels, Author of Fugitive Pieces<BR><BR>A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Visitation offers us the stories of twelve individuals who make their home here. The narrative weaves in and out of history and time, shimmering through the public and secret spaces of a magical little house and showing us the passions and fates of its inhabitants. Elegant and poetic, Visitation presents a literary mosaic of the last century in Germany, tearing open wounds and offering moments of reconciliation with its dramatic stories and its exquisite evocation of a landscape no political upheaval can truly change.<BR><BR>"Love, death and passion, from the Weimar Republic to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Wonderful German prose."-Playboy<BR><BR>"Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene."-Cosmopolitan<BR><BR>"Erpenbeck will get under your skin."-The Washington Post Book World