Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck #joyce Our activities have permanently altered

Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad

Dr Vanessa Kimbell is the unrivalled master of sourdough baking

Ivan is a teacher and artist

'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John Bayley

War and Power explains how misunderstanding war and power has led to terrible

Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck #joyce Our activities have permanently alteredShortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams a summerhouse with wrought6 iron balconies, stained glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows