Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite 20 years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. Fearing ghosts and each other, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, and in this psychologically complex twist on the traditional gothic novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, the results will be catastrophic.
"Egan is both a captivating storyteller and an incisive social observer…. [This book] is satirically sublime."—The Chicago Tribune