Dutch house. Patettt E.

This novel Ann Patettt resembles the fairy tale of the Grimm brothers, which grew to the scale of the family epic. The history of the main characters, Danny Konroit and his sisters Mave, covers the entire second half of the 20th century, and their fate is fatally intertwined with the Dutch house-a mansion in the east of Pennsylvania, which once belonged to the Dutch Magnabyk dynasty. The Dutch house itself is not inhabited by ghosts, but everyone who crosses its threshold becomes a ghost of the house in a sense-wherever he went, wherever he lives, he carries this image everywhere.

Danny and Mayv only have this: a father, who has passed the mother, who had long passed into a memory, as if emerging from the nightmare of the stepmother and an ominous family mansion, who had passed into a memory. As well as an adult life, which will still not begin: the curse of childhood, the seal of orphan, the inability to break the once formed bonds. The Dutch House is a story about the victory of love over evil. The victory, mixed on the losses and in many ways not obvious, because ultimately the reader will have to figure out himself on whose side he is and whether the villain was here. And if it was, then who?