The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece - Paperback

The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece - Paperback

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The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece - Paperback
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The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece - Paperback

The Broken House: Growing Up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece - Paperback

$20.10
$20.10

by Horst Krüger (Author)

'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times

'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary Mantel

Twenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism.

He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble.

Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, The Broken House is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis.

Author Biography

Horst Krüger (1919-99) was a German journalist, novelist and travel writer. Published in 1966, The Broken House was critically acclaimed as an exemplary portrait of youth in Nazi Germany.

Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald Jähner, To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann, Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski, Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Krüger.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.4 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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