The German House

De: Annette Hess

Narrado por: Nina Franoszek

Duración: 10 h y 54 m

Resumen del Editor

Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’ international best seller 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 24-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.

©2019 Annette Hess (P)2019 HarperAudio

Narration problem

I enjoyed the story. The characters were well rounded and the various plot lines intriguing. I had issue with the garbled narration. Nearly every sentence had mispronunciations. Thankfully I had the kindle book as well and was able to read any words I could not understand. The narrator had a strange accent. Did not sound German.

Just ok

I like the plot - but oh my was this a struggle to get through. I normally plow through this genre and this should’ve been in my strike zone. The pace was too slow and I found it very repetitive. Plus, at least two storylines were left either unresolved or unsatisfactorily so.

Got such mixed feelings

This audiobook could have been shorter but what to leave out is the dilemma. Just seemed some unneeded parts. I almost stopped listening more than once because it wasn’t holding my attention but glad I saw it through

Could have been a great novel but...

The subject is interesting but the writing is clunky and full of clichees. And the love story is little more than Halequin book intrigue.
Also, I get that you need a narrator who can pronoounce the German words correctly, but you also need one who is able to prononce the English words correctly. This narrator can not.
Very disappointing over all.