num_pages: 256
description: A powerful and disturbing novel of the Nazi era and its legacy by the winner of Germany’s Ernst Willner Prize. During the final days of the Reich, sound engineer Herman Karnau is brought to Hitler’s bunker to record the Fuhrer’s last utterances. There he finds young Helga Goebbels and her siblings, children of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, awaiting a terrible fate. Translated by John Brownjohn.
language: English
title: The Karnau Tapes
titlecomplete: The Karnau Tapes
genres: Germany, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, German Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
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: Harcourt