num_pages: 240
description: Karnau is a sound engineer, who, sent to the Russian front to pick up enemy transmissions, continues his secret obsession of recording the screams of the wounded. In the final days of the Reich he meets Goebbel's daughter Helga in the Bunker and they record their leader's final utterances.
language: English
title: The Karnau Tapes
titlecomplete: The Karnau Tapes
genres: Fiction, Historical, German Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Germany, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 322
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur
category: Ernst-Willner-Preis, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Uwe-Johnson-Preis, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: John Brownjohn
publisher: Vintage