For readers of Nelio Biedermann and Olga Tokarczuk, f****rom a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, magical realist epic traces the fate of a farming family living on the edge of the German empire over one momentous century, through the keen, imaginative eyes of its youngest and final descendant.At the house on Osterstieg, in a village on the North Sea, where the vegetables turn white with grief and the dead don’t leave so much as linger, girls ...

For readers of Nelio Biedermann and Olga Tokarczuk, f****rom a dazzling new voice in European literature, this compact, magical realist epic traces the fate of a farming family living on the edge of the German empire over one momentous century, through the keen, imaginative eyes of its youngest and final descendant.At the house on Osterstieg, in a village on the North Sea, where the vegetables turn white with grief and the dead don’t leave so much as linger, girls ...