Dom Holendrów with delivery to Ireland

A novel shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, compared to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald

One of the most important books of 2019 according to the "New York Times" and "Time"

Dusk falls over the Dutch House. One by one, its enormous windows light up with a warm glow. Danny and Maeve Conroy have parked their battered Oldsmobile on the other side of the street to watch the play of shadows unfolding before them.

This is the house where they grew up. It was the fulfilment of their father's dreams and ambitions, and at the same time a place their mother hated. A house they lost along with the family fortune, and whose legacy cast a shadow over their entire lives.

Dom Holendrów is a story of family ties, loss, sacrifice and forgiveness. With masterly precision, Ann Patchett dismantles the American myth that anyone can rewrite their own story, cut themselves off from their roots and grow new ones. Her latest novel is an intricately woven study of memory. It shows how the past resonates in us ceaselessly, and how, whether we like it or not, we repeat our parents' mistakes.

There is no parable of the prodigal mother in literature, so Ann Patchett creates her own: beautiful, painful and poignant. The author is a mistress of elegant, gripping prose, and Dom Holendrów is one of the finest portraits of a family I have read. In her hands, a perfectly ordinary life becomes a story I could not tear myself away from.
- Marcin Meller

"An intimate and moving novel […]. Dom Holendrów is a book full of pain and tenderness, in which Patchett's talent for storytelling is displayed in all its glory […]. A perceptive, deeply affecting novel about family, sacrifice and obsession."
– "The Sunday Times"