Klaus Modick's bestselling novel about Eduard Graf von Keyserling.

Summer 1901 at Lake Starnberg. Lovis Corinth portrays Eduard Graf von Keyserling, a writer and dandy from Baltic nobility, whose mysterious past catches up with him when an unexpected traveling singer appears. Could she be the woman who embroiled him in a scandal over twenty years ago, forcing him to flee to Vienna and rendering him a persona non grata in noble circles?

Witty, empathetic, full of humor and verve, Klaus Modick explores the emotional and societal contradictions of the turn of the century and tells the story of how an outsider became the brilliant writer who described the decay of his own class with melancholy and sharp irony.