num_pages: 192
description: Celebrated author Rudolf Herter is in Vienna to read from his masterpiece, The Invention of Love, when in a TV interview he speaks of his desire to write about evil. He is later contacted by an elderly couple who believe he should hear their shocking story. As servants at the Berghof, Hitler's retreat during the war, they looked after Eva Braun and consequently became guardians of a shattering secret and unwilling participants in a terrible crime. Burdened by his new knowledge, Herter must decide what to do with it...
language: English
title: Siegfried: A Black Idyll
titlecomplete: Siegfried: A Black Idyll
characters: Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun
genres: Germany, Historical Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Roman, Classics, War, Fiction, Dutch Literature
ratings_count: 4842
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: AKO / ECI Literatuurprijs, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Libris Literatuurprijs, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: De Inktaap, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Prix Européen Des Jeunes Lecteurs
publisher: Penguin Books