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The house by the lake : one house, five families, ... Read More

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  • ISBN: 9781250065063
  • ISBN: 1250065062
  • Physical Description: xix, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ... Read More
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Picador, 2016.

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"In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to ... Read More
Subject: Harding, Thomas, 1968- > Family.
Potsdam (Germany) > History, Local.
Historic houses > Germany > Potsdam Region.
Alexander family.
Meisel family.
Jews > Germany > Potsdam > Biography.
Vacation homes > Germany > Berlin Suburban Area.
Historic buildings > Germany > Berlin Suburban Area.
Potsdam (Germany) > Buildings, structures, etc. > History.
Potsdam (Germany) > Biography.
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1001 . ‡aHarding, Thomas, ‡d1968- ‡eauthor. ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)221705
24514. ‡aThe house by the lake : ‡bone house, five families, and a hundred years of German history / ‡cThomas Harding.
250 . ‡aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bPicador, ‡c2016.
264 4. ‡c©2015
300 . ‡axix, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ‡billustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; ‡c25 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 361-414) and index.
5050 . ‡a"In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over -- a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it? As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all -- bar one -- had been forced out. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had weathered storms, fires and abandonment; witnessed murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation. As the story of the house began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings towards their former homeland -- and a hatred handed down through the generations. -- For readers of Edmund de Waal, Daniel Mendelson, and David Laski" -- Provided by publisher.
60010. ‡aHarding, Thomas, ‡d1968- ‡xFamily.
651 0. ‡aPotsdam (Germany) ‡xHistory, Local.
650 0. ‡aHistoric houses ‡zGermany ‡zPotsdam Region.
60030. ‡aAlexander family.
60030. ‡aMeisel family.
650 0. ‡aJews ‡zGermany ‡zPotsdam ‡vBiography.
650 0. ‡aVacation homes ‡zGermany ‡zBerlin Suburban Area.
650 0. ‡aHistoric buildings ‡zGermany ‡zBerlin Suburban Area.
651 0. ‡aPotsdam (Germany) ‡xBuildings, structures, etc. ‡xHistory.
651 0. ‡aPotsdam (Germany) ‡vBiography.
653 . ‡aGross Glienicke
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