A DECEMBER 2019 INDIE NEXT PICK! 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. If everything your family told you was a lie, how far would you go to uncover the truth? 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, Jürgen 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 Jürgen 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

1963 год. Для 24-летней Евы война – всего лишь туманное воспоминание из детства. Но прошло уже более двух десятилетий, и улицы Франкфурта теперь восстановлены, а вместо руин – новые здания. Ева уже готова начать новую жизнь вдалеке от родителей и сестры, выйдя замуж за богатого ухажера Юргена. Планы Евы расстраиваются, когда ее внезапно вызывает бойкий американский следователь и приглашает выступить переводчиком на трибунале, где будут судить нацистских преступников. Еве предстоит выбрать между лояльностью семье и близким и желанием раскрыть темные секреты прошлого своей страны