Three farmers on their way to a dance

About “Three farmers on their way to a dance”

The novel centers on a photograph taken in 1914 by August Sander depicting three young men on their way to a country dance, which becomes the focal point of the narrative. The story follows the lives of the three farmers, a young narrator obsessed with the photograph, and Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston who discovers a personal connection to the image, as their paths intersect across a century marked by war and change.