The Pretense of Memory

A SEQUEL TO THE ANNA KLEIN TRILOGY

In a nation eager to forget, one young man dares to remember, risking everything to make the truth impossible to ignore.

In West Germany in 1958, the post-war miracle economy is booming and everyone seems to have forgotten - or misremembered - the crimes of the Third Reich entirely. But Oskar Gruenewald hasn't. An idealist despite his traumatic past as a twice orphaned refugee, he enrolled in law school as a pathway to achieving a semblance of justice. But ...