Seven Years

This is a German novel about an architect and his complicated adult life - an unhappy marriage, an affair, a love child, the collapse of his business and his financial ruin.  It was a pretty depressing book.  :-)

A couple of things I liked - the German-ness of the book.  It was amusing to me that the characters would meet in a beer garden instead of a coffee house, for example.  One of the characters was an undocumented woman from Poland who worked illegally as a housekeeper.