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 just a foggy childhood memory. It’s 1963, and Frankfurt’s streets, once cratered from heavy Allied bombings, are now smooth and paved over. Business is booming at the Bruhns’s humble family restaurant, German House, and the entire country is eager to put the war in the past. Even Eva considers leaving her tiring job as a translator and starting a new life as a housewife as she waits for her wealthy suitor, Jürgen Schoormann, to propose. But Eva’s plans are turned upside down when a hot-tempered investigator, David Miller, hires her as an interpreter for former Polish prisoners recounting a harrowing place they call Auschwitz.

As Eva learns more and more about her country’s crimes, she begins to question her future and her family’s silence about the past. Does she really love Jürgen, and will she be happy as a housewife? Why do her parents refuse to talk about the war? Are they hiding something? Going against the wishes of her family, lover, and community, Eva joins a team of prosecutors determined to bring the Nazis to justice—a decision that could change the history and the future of her nation. But how much is Eva willing to sacrifice in the name of justice?

Set during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, The German House is an utterly enthralling and unprecedented perspective on the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust written by one of Germany’s most exciting storytellers. A dramatic yet nuanced portrait of family and love, The German House explores what it means to speak truth to power in the face of unspeakable horrors.