Hakka

About This Novel

Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize (2008), and selected into The Guardian's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century (2019). An architect built a dream summer villa on the lakeside outside Berlin, but he had no idea what this land had and would experience: a young woman went crazy and drowned in the lake; Jewish neighbors sold their property at a low price and then disappeared; the advancing Red Army requisitioned the house; fled the Nazi government The author Quan returned from exile and wanted to drag out an ideal home that could last for a long time from the ruins; decades after the reunification of the two Germanys, her granddaughter was forced to give up the property rights, and the successor was the heir of its original builder... In the same place, residents of different eras separated and came. The huge invisible force of history continues to erode mankind's efforts to establish lasting values, and above all passion, pain, reconciliation and destiny stands a landscape that no amount of madness or turmoil can truly change. The "iceberg-like transcendence" poetic narrative of "A Guest" is an echo of Germany's centuries-old vicissitudes. From the Weimar Republic to the years after reunification, twelve fragments of life form a mosaic in which the past and the future collapse. The real teller of the story is time. "Eternal life has existed in the lifetime of an individual human being."

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