SHORTLISTED: THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED: WOMENS'' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
?A NOVEL OF DEVASTATING BEAUTY SET IN BUCHENWALD DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
"A powerful and disturbing study in terrible lies and the human need to believe them."
ANNIE PROULX
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn-t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind and life in Buchenwald would appear to be idyllic. Lying just beyond the forest that surrounds them is the looming presence of a work camp. Frau Hahn-s husband, SS Sturmbannf-hrer Dietrich Hahn, has been assigned as the camp-s administrator.
When Frau Hahn-s poor health leads her into an unlikely and poignant friendship with one of Buchenwald-s prisoners, Dr Lenard Weber, her na- ignorance about what is going on so nearby is challenged. A d
