This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THIS HOUSE IS MINE. Copyright © 2015 by Dörte Hansen. Translation copyright © 2016 by Anne Stokes. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Cover design by Kerri Resnick
Cover illustrations: cherry blossom © Fresher/Shutterstock; bird © Ihnatovich Maryia/Shutterstock
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hansen, Dörte, 1964– author.|Stokes, Anne Marie, translator.
Title: This house is mine / Dörte Hansen; translated by Anne Stokes.
Other titles: Altes Land. English
Description: First U.S. edition.|New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.|“Originally published in Germany under the title Altes Land by Albrecht Knaus Verlag”—Verso title page.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016021591|ISBN 9781250100856 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781250106469 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Aunts—Fiction.|Nieces—Fiction.|Women—Family relationships—Fiction.|Belonging (Social psychology)—Fiction.|Hamburg Region (Germany)—Fiction.|Domestic fiction.|Psychological fiction.|BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Classification: LCC PT2708.A655 A4813 2016|DDC 833/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021591
e-ISBN 9781250106469
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Originally published in Germany under the title Altes Land by Albrecht Knaus Verlag
First U.S. Edition: November 2016