The Wrong House

The narrator in Michael Krüger's novella is an editor of a south German newspaper and is supposed to be covering the Librarian's Association congress. During it he goes for a walk, ending up in a Hamburg suburb, where coincidence leads him to talk up the invitation of a woman and her adolescent son and join them in the villa where they live.

With his very first step into the »wrong« house he enters a story that has long since been in motion. He becomes witness to the embroilments of this strange couple, the mother and the son, and is soon a captive of their secrets. As exciting as a detective story, with wit and great verve, Michael Krüger tells the story of a man who not only tracks down the myths of a strange house but also that of a »different life«.