The Keep A Novel.

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...