GERMAN HOUSE

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 24 year old Eva Bruhn, WWII is just a foggy childhood memory, but everything changes when investigator David Miller shows up at her door with an unexpected job opportunity - court interpreter. Eva, used to translating business contracts, must familiarise herself with shocking words: asphyxiated, prison block, Auschwitz. With each subsequent interview, the horrors of the war become more and more undeniable and caught between her own moral reckoning and the wishes of her family, Eva joins a team of fiery prosecutors fighting to bring the Nazis to justice, and in the process, changes both the present and the past of her country. The author is a filmmaker and we truly are transported to 1960s Germany with great realism. Remainder mark, 332pp, paperback.