Der Garten über dem Meer

"This hasn't happened to me in a long time: I turned the last page and started again with the first one." Roger Willemsen "I've always liked to know what happens to people, and not because I'm curious... It's more because I like people, and I liked the owners of this house very much." For six summers, the gardener of a mansion overlooking the sea watches the comings and goings of its wealthy, newlyweds, Francesc and Rosamaria. They welcome their clique from Barcelona, go water-skiing, have wild parties and live a midsummer night's dream envied by their servants. But the gardener does not escape the fine cracks that more clearly mark the apparent idyll with each visit. Why does the couple's passion seem to be played out all at once? Will Francesc, who was loyal to his wife until then, now em.