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The novel The Curse of the House (Heimsuchung) by Jenny Erpenbeck, a prominent representative of the female "writerly miracle" of the literature of united Germany, is one of the most actively translated works in recent years. In seven years, it has been translated into thirteen languages. Erpenbeck's novel is a condensed German history of the twentieth century, a masterfully composed narrative of peace and war, of escape and exile, of the utopia of the homeland and the search for home. Through twelve seemingly separate and yet fatally intertwined stories of different families and five generations, the reader learns about the vicissitudes of ordinary Germans' lives from the First World War to the reunification of Germany. The poetic precision of this laconic, dense prose and the almost musical rhythm of the stories, all of which are somehow connected to a summer house on Lake Brandenburg, are mesmerising.