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. But Eva's plans are turned upside down when a fiery investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial.Īs she becomes more deeply involved in the Frankfurt Trials, Eva begins to question her family's silence on the war and her future. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jürgen Schoormann, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. ![]() Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. Now it is 1963, and the city's streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. At the war's end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. ![]() If everything your family told you was a lie, how far would you go to uncover the truth?įor twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. 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. The most trying of times will create the most unexpected heroes and incredible acts of courage in this stirring narrative as seen through the eyes of those devastated by war-torn Italy. With Mussolini deposed and Allied armies fighting their way up the peninsula, the fate of Italy hangs in the balance, and the people of Lake Como must decide how much they're prepared to sacrifice for family, friends, and the country they love. But Luca's mother, undeterred, is devising her own revenge on the occupiers. In the heart of their village, their mothers have also found themselves vulnerable to the encroaching Nazis. As the violent Nazi occupation intensifies, Luca and Sarah fear for more than their own lives. While risking his life to free his country, Luca is also struggling to protect Sarah, his Jewish lover who's hiding in a mountain cabin. ![]() Luca Benedetto has joined the partisans in their fight against the German troops ravaging the shores of his town on Lake Como. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written-tinged with the tragedy of life’s regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.Ī harrowing historical novel of the extraordinary acts of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Italy. In The Sacrament, critically acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson looks deeply at the complexity of our past lives and selves the faulty nature of memory and the indelible mark left by the joys and traumas of youth. ![]() Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz’s death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. Two decades later, the child-now a grown man, haunted by the past-calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claimsĪ young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland.
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