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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Harding, Thomas, 1968-     Subjects     Harding, Thomas, 1968- -- Family.     Alexander family.     Meisel family.     Jews -- Germany -- Potsdam -- Biography.     Vacation houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.     Historic houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.     Potsdam (Germany) -- History, Local.     Historic houses -- Germany -- Potsdam Region.     Potsdam (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.     Potsdam (Germany) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harding, Thomas, 1968-       by title:      The house by the lak...       by call number:      943.1546 H263h     Search the Web     Harding, Thomas, 1968-     Harding, Thomas, 1968- -- Family.     Alexander family.     Meisel family.     Jews -- Germany -- Potsdam -- Biography.     Vacation houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.     Historic houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.     Potsdam (Germany) -- History, Local.     Historic houses -- Germany -- Potsdam Region.     Potsdam (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.     Potsdam (Germany) -- Biography.       MARC Display

The house by the lake : one house, five families, and a hundred years of German history / Thomas Harding. by Harding, Thomas, 1968- Call #: 943.1546 H263h Subjects Harding, Thomas, 1968- -- Family.   Alexander family.   Meisel family.   Jews -- Germany -- Potsdam -- Biography.   Vacation houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.   Historic houses -- Germany -- Berlin Suburban Area.   Potsdam (Germany) -- History, Local.   Historic houses -- Germany -- Potsdam Region.   Potsdam (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History.   Potsdam (Germany) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781250065063 (hc) Edition:  First U.S. ed. Description:  xix, 442 pages : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (page 411-414) and index. Summary:  "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 a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over--a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it? As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all--bar one--had been forced out. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had weathered storms, fires and abandonment; witnessed murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation. As the story of the house began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings towards their former homeland--and a hatred handed down through the generations. - For readers of Edmund de Waal, Daniel Mendelson, and David Laski"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 943.1546 H263h Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 943.1546 H263h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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