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Visitation is a book written by one of Germany’s most acclaimed authors. It is a uniquely crafted and spine chilling story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts. Summary of the Book Beside the lake in Brandenburg, a young architect has built the house of his dreams. It is a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows in the colours of jewels, and a bedroom consisting of a hidden closet. All of this has been set within a beautiful garden. However, the land on which the house has been built has a deep and dark history. There was violence that started off with the drowning of a young woman during a time of madness and chaos. This gets darker during the century when Jewish neighbours start to disappear one by one, the Red Army requisitions the house and destroys the furniture and the garden, an East German makes an attempt to swim his way to the West, and a couple has returned from brutal exile in Siberia and their granddaughter is forced to resign her claim upon the house they have given to her. By digging into the past and bringing out that which was hidden, the author has managed to tell a beautiful and brutal story of the things that continue to haunt a home. About Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck is a German director and writer. She started her writing career alongside her directing in the 1990s. She has authored a narrative of prose and plays. Her works include: History of the Old Child in 1999, a collection of stories called Trinkets in 2001, the novella Dictionary in 2004, and Visitation in 2008. In the year 2007, she took over a bi-weekly column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Jenny lives in Berlin.