At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...

«Novyĭ roman amerikanskoĭ pisatelʹnit͡sy Ėnn Pėtchett napominaet skazku bratʹev Grimm, razrosshui͡usi͡a do masshtabov semeĭnogo ėposa. Istorii͡a glavnykh geroev, Dėnni Konroi͡a i ego sestry Mėĭv, okhvatyvaet vsi͡u vtorui͡u polovinu KhKh veka, a ikh sudʹby okazyvai͡utsi͡a rokovym obrazom perepleteny s Gollandskim domom--osobni͡akom na vostoke Pensilʹvanii, kogda-to prinadlezhavshim razorivsheĭsi͡a dinastii niderlandskikh magnatov...