Szczepan Twardoch's monumental, bold novel about a Silesian family. Awarded the Brücke Berlin Literature and Translation Prize in 2016. The earth knows everything. It knows Josef Magnor, who discovers the taste of sausage soup as a child in 1906 and never forgets it. He ends up in the trenches and later in the bed of the young Caroline. After causing a tragedy, the earth offers him a hiding place in a Silesian mine. It also sees Josef's great-grandson, the architect Nikodem. Everything he loves slips away: his wife and daughter, his mistress, the house he built - what will he be able to save? The earth knows the end... Szczepan Twardoch's "Drach" unleashes a grand cycle of becoming and perishing - a magnificent panorama of the 20th century.