| International Standard Book Number |
9781643585680 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1643585681 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Hess, Annette, 1967- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Deutsches haus. English
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| Title Statement |
The German house / Annette Hess ; translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer.
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| Edition Statement |
Center Point Large Print edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Thorndike : Center Point Large Print, 2020.
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| Physical Description |
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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| General Note |
Regular print version previously published by: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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| General Note |
"Originally published as Deutsches Haus in German in 2018 by Ullstein."--Title page verso.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At the war's end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city's streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jurgen Schoormann, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva's plans are turned upside down when a fiery investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial. As she becomes more deeply involved in the Frankfurt Trials, Eva begins to question her family's silence on the war and her future. Why do her parents refuse to talk about what happened? What are they hiding? Does she really love Jurgen and will she be happy as a housewife? Though it means going against the wishes of her family and her lover, Eva, propelled by her own conscience, joins a team of fiery prosecutors determined to bring the Nazis to justice-a decision that will help change the present and the past of her nation"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language note |
Translated from the German.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Translators Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Self-realization in women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Auschwitz Trial, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1963-1965 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Germany History Fiction. 20th century
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Lauffer, Elisabeth. translator.
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