A personal and panoramic new history of Germany in the twentieth century by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf
Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction; THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; BLOOD ON THE PAGE, which won the Crime Writers' Association "Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction" and FUTURE HISTORY, which was shortlisted for the German Children's Literature Award 2021. His next book, WHITE DEBT, was published in January 2022. You can follow Thomas on twitter @thomasharding
A passionate memoir about Germany.
*Neil MacGregor, author of A History of the World in 100 Objects
and Germany: Memories of a Nation*
A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the
prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different
families. A remarkable book.
*Tom Holland*
In The House by the Lake, the simple villa loved and lost by Thomas
Harding's family magically becomes the setting for the great
clashes of the twentieth century, and for a technicolour cast –
victims, villains and ordinary compromisers – struggling not to be
crushed by them. Personal and panoramic, heart-wrenching yet
uplifting, this is history at its most alive.
*A. D. Miller, bestselling author of Snowdrops and The Faithful
Couple*
I loved this book. I admire the elegance of it, the hope, the
honesty and the generousness with which every resident is given his
or her place. It has made me think about our individual parts in
the bigger story, and the coming and going-ness of things. It is a
book that will stay with me for a very long time.
*Rachel Joyce*
Diamond brilliant... the history of modern Germany as seen through
the windows of the wooden house beside the lake. This is an
extraordinary book.
*Sunday Express*
A superb work of social history, told with tremendous narrative
verve.
*Sunday Times*
This is far more than a family memoir: by tracing the lives of the
different families who lived there, Harding sheds light on the
German 20th century, a tale of war, spies, murder and political,
social and racial division . . . His account of the house is a
superb work of social history, told with tremendous narrative
verve.
*Sunday Times*
Thomas Harding again pulls off the admirable feat of showing us
anew the history of German's troubled twentieth century by focusing
on a single story. With the narrative drive of a great novelist and
the meticulous research of a great historian, Harding has crafted a
moving, instructive and important book.
*The Herald*
It would be hard to write an original and moving account of the
tortured twentieth-century history of Germany. But, in The House by
the Lake, Thomas Harding succeeds remarkably... a tragic and
beautifully told history.
*Jewish Chronicle*
An unusual, evocative and moving account of modern Germany...The
book succeeds remarkably, in providing a fresh and original insight
into the twin totalitarian systems that disfigured Germany in the
twentieth century.
*The Times, 'Books of the Year'*
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