Quisisana

“Why have you roused me, Konski?” Bertram demands, only to hear that champagne and defying the doctor have left him moaning on the sofa. Then his servant mentions the one guest Bertram has spent twenty years avoiding: Lydia.

At a country house in Thuringia, Bertram is recovering from a grave illness—and discovering that his body may no longer obey him as readily as his temper. When he learns Lydia is due that very evening, old memories stir: a mountain slope, a giant oak, and vows of fidelity long past. He orders the trunks left unpacked and hurries out to challenge his hostess, determined to leave before Lydia arrives. But can a man outrun a past that has found its way back to the very house where he hoped to rest?

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