Dutch House

The new novel by American writer Ann Patchett is reminiscent of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale that has grown to the scale of a family epic. The story of the main characters, Danny Conroy and his sister Maeve, spans the entire second half of the 20th century, and their destinies are fatally intertwined with the Dutch House, a mansion in eastern Pennsylvania that once belonged to the ruined dynasty of Dutch magnates Vanhubuyck. The Dutch House itself is not inhabited by ghosts, but everyone who crosses its threshold in a sense becomes the ghost of the house - wherever they go, wherever they live, they carry this image with them everywhere.
Danny and Maeve have only this: a father who died prematurely, a mother who has long since become a memory, a stepmother who seemed to have emerged from a nightmare, and an ominous family mansion. And also an adult life that never begins: the curse of childhood, the seal of orphanhood, the impossibility of breaking the bonds that were once formed. "The Dutch House" is a story about the victory of love over evil. A victory mixed with losses and in many ways not obvious, because ultimately the reader will have to figure out for himself whose side he is on and whether there was a villain here. And if there was, then who?

Author: Ann Patchett
Translation: Sergey Vladislavovich Kumysh
Year of issue: 2022
Publisher: Sindbad
Pages: 320
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 243x161x28 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00131-231-4