How does Malone describe the Lambert's farm in the novel, Malone Dies?

Malone describes the farm in bleak terms: it was in a "hollow," a small valley that was "flooded in winter" and "burnt to a cinder" during the summertime (195). The farm lead to a "fine meadow," but Malone notes that the farm did not include the meadow, and that it instead belonged to the "other peasants living at a distance" (195).