The Keep

Danny and Howard are cousins, friends during childhood, who have their friendship destroyed when Danny plays a cruel trick on Howard. Howard as a child is the geeky fat kid and Danny is the popular athletic one, but as the boys grow into men, the tables turn. Danny is surprised to hear from Howard who invites Danny to his new castle in Europe, a castle he is renovating into a hotel. The story shifts back and forth between the cousins and a prisoner in writing class struggling to write his first book. I was never sure what was real and what was not real, but the story was captivating and the characters were compelling.