Taube und Wildente

Mosebach's language is a colorful celebration. Powerful and vivid, atmospheric: Martin Mosebach, bestselling author and recipient of the Büchner Prize, tells in this novel about a marriage, which is also the story of a painting, about guilt and reconciliation, love and loss. Like every year, the Dalandt family spends the summer at their estate in Provence. The heat makes them sluggish, cicadas chirp in the cypress trees, and every morning the lady of the house walks through the garden in her nightgown to the gatehouse, where the manager awaits her. Her husband is distracted by his own disastrous affair. A marital dispute ignites over "Dove and Wild Duck," a still life from the 19th century. What is the significance of the crimson dot at its center, doesn’t it make it a modern masterpiece? But the woman wants to sell it, and the tension between them grows. Martin Mosebach, who depicts human weaknesses like no one else, paints with words. A fiery novel about art, love, and betrayal.