Taube und Wildente

A masterfully executed novel painting. Like every year, the Dalandt family spends the summer in Provence. The heat makes them sluggish, cicadas chirp in the cypress trees, and every morning the lady of the house walks in her nightgown through the garden to the gatehouse, where the manager awaits her. Her husband is distracted by his own disastrous affair. Then 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 other, paints with words. A passionate novel about art, love, and betrayal. About the abyss in a marriage and a misstep with consequences, about beauty, damnation, and loss – virtuously and captivatingly told by one of the most significant contemporary German-speaking writers. An extraordinary piece of literature about love, art, and betrayal with a glorious twist. Provence, an old country house, the age-old drama of humanity, a stylistic reading pleasure of high rank.