Books like Stones from the River
Trudi Montag, born with dwarfism in the small German town of Burgdorf in 1915, grows up minding her father's lending library and collecting her neighbours' secrets, as the town moves through war, Nazi rule and what followed.
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Europe Central
Linked stories of Germany and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, of artists, officers and informers, from the composer Shostakovich to the SS officer Kurt Gerstein.
Life and Fate
A Soviet physicist and his extended family move through Stalingrad, a German camp, the Lubyanka, and the Soviet state in a book Grossman wrote knowing it would be suppressed.
All That I Am
Ruth Becker, an old woman in Sydney, remembers her youth in Berlin among the German left in the 1930s, and the exile in London with the playwright Ernst Toller and her cousin Dora.
A Small Death in Lisbon
In Lisbon in the 1990s Inspector Zé Coelho investigates the murder of a teenage girl, while in 1941 Klaus Felsen, a German industrialist pressed into the SS, is sent to Portugal to secure the wolfram the Reich needs for its war.
All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan with a gift for radios, grow up on opposite sides of World War II until their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944.
Crabwalk
A journalist born on the night the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed in 1945 is pushed by his mother to write its story, and finds his teenage son is already obsessed with it online.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
Berlin
Two decades in the making, Lutes's epic of Weimar Berlin follows a journalist, a student, a family, a cabaret performer, and a city as it slides into Nazism.
Group Portrait with Lady
A researcher pieces together, from interviews with everyone who knew her, the life of Leni Pfeiffer, a Cologne woman who fell in love with a Soviet prisoner of war during the Second World War.
Dog Years
The friendship of Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel, two boys from a village near Danzig, from the 1920s through the Nazi years and after, told by three narrators and shadowed by a line of black dogs.
The Whalebone Theatre
In 1928 a whale washes up on the beach below Chilcombe, a crumbling Dorset manor, and Cristabel Seagrave, twelve, and her half-siblings build a theatre out of its bones.
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.