At the beginning of this life, it is autumn, and ducks swim on the Bad Nauheim pond. The narrator recalls a paradise, a life completely free of people and constraints. He spends his early years mainly with his great-grandmother. But then the family moves into the large, new house that has been built where the apple trees once stood. The new house becomes the center of the child's life, which he resists. With "The House," Andreas Maier continues consistently what he started with his successful novel "The Room." A book, a house, a life. Childhood spaces where a worldview, an entire world, emerges. Bypassing the town - this is a defense of the province planned over eleven volumes, for it is, according to Andreas Maier, "the most universal world one can imagine.".