The House by the Lake

“A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house” from the #1 international bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf (Tom Holland, author of Dominion ). Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times (London) • New Statesman (London) • Daily Express (London) • Commonweal 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 her “soul place,” she said—a holiday home for her