La casa alemana

Synopsis of La casa alemana

«La casa alemana» is the historical novel by Annette Hess, published by Planeta in hardcover (464 pages, in Spanish).

Eva Bruhns works as an interpreter and lives absorbed by the family restaurant La casa alemana, until in 1963 the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt shakes her world. Translating the survivors' testimonies, she discovers a horror silenced by her family, and the photographs missing from the family album confront her with an uncomfortable truth.

First novel by Annette Hess, translated from German by María José Díez Pérez. The original German title is «Deutsches Haus».

For readers of historical fiction interested in postwar Germany and the family wounds of the Holocaust.