A delicately nuanced and profoundly resonant novel about a young Canadian caught up in the heart of Germany's mid-century rise to nationalism, war and genocide. In 1932, Michael Renner arrives in Berlin to care for his elderly grandmother. Entran...
Our story begins in 1915. While convalescing in a French army hospital, Rain, a veteran of the Great War now raging across Europe, finds solace in aiding the building’s groundskeeper. An unlikely apprentice gardener, he buries himself in this work....