SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 to hier brother, ktorý wife má just left him. Mladý chlapec s mnohými siblings - viaceré than she cares to remember - z earliest dieťa she ha attended to ich every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort s perfektnou obedience, s highest degree of devotion. Krajina, to transpires, je krajina ich rodiny ancestors, obscure though reviled people. Soon po jeho príchode, a série unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. Nahlásia, že local suspicion o incomers in general seems to je directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently a silently toľko v servise komunity, stále stúpajú svoje hostility rastúce, pressing na okrajoch jej brother's property. Vnútri dom, although she tends to jej brother a jeho domov s utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...