# The House in the Film

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- Book: [The House in the Film](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-mazower/the-house-in-the-film) ([The House in the Film.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-mazower/the-house-in-the-film.md))
- Authors: [Mark Mazower](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-mazower)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-3731-305-1
- Published: 2027-04-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

‘History is a matter of clues and divination — and a kind of luck that is not exactly luck at all.’ On a warm autumn evening in Paris, the author attends the screening of a 1970s cult film, at the centre of which is a house. Within an overgrown garden in a suburb of Athens lies a fin-de-siècle villa in which time itself seems suspended. Haunted by its evocative grandeur, Mark Mazower sets out to locate the building and its enigmatic owner, and to understand the now-vanished culture that made them both. The House in the Film tells the story of the rise and fall of an elite in twentieth-century Greece. It is also a meditation upon the ways in which the past reveals itself to us. Weaving together fragments of memory, intuitions and images, history becomes a creative act and a form of communion between the living and the dead.