The Ascent
McKay, David / Hertmans, Stefan / McKay, David
A dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine.In the first year of the new millennium, a book came into my hands from which I learned that for twenty years I had lived in the house of a former SS man. In 1979, Stefan Hertmans fell in love with a beautiful dilapidated old house in Ghent in Belgium, which he lovingly rescued from decay, as it became his peaceful sanctuary. Now, all these years later, he...