The Keep

The KeepAward winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep the tower, the last stand is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 07/10/2007
ISBN: 9781400079742
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.28w x 0.88d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/29/2007 pg. 20