ENGLISH

The Keep

By Jennifer Egan

Book information

Publisher
Anchor
Year
2007
ISBN
1400079748, 9781400079742
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
390 kB (399340 bytes)
Pages
272\0
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском язы

Description

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

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