Navigation

Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Monthly Newsletter

Join Now

Interpreters

Interpreters

Author(s): Sue Eckstein

Location(s): England, Germany

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction

Era(s): WW2 and modern

Location

Content

Buy Now

When Julia Rosenthal returns to the suburban estate of her childhood, the unspoken tensions that permeated her seemingly conventional family life come flooding back. Trying to make sense of the secrets and half truths, she is forced to question how she has raised her own daughter. Meanwhile, her brother, Max, is happy to leave the past undisturbed. But in a different place and time, another woman struggles to tell the story of her early years in wartime Germany, gradually revealing secrets that threaten to collide past and present…

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Log in

Other books set in this location

Other books by this author

TripFiction

Making it easy to match a location with a book

Find out more about us and our philosophy

About Us

Book Reviews

Lead Review

The secrets she discloses are both disturbing and haunting. They touch on universal themes, and give a voice to the many who perished in the war, and the many silent secrets those who survived...

Read review

Book set in England and Germany – Interpreters

Author: tripfiction

Interpreters is the second (and, sadly, the last) book set in England and Germany by Sue Eckstein who died in 2013. It is very different in style from the first, The Cloths of Heaven set in the Gambia. Much less of the Evelyn Waugh...

Read review

Book set in England and Germany – Interpreters

Author: tripfiction

Interpreters is the second (and, sadly, the last) book set in England and Germany by Sue Eckstein who died in 2013. It is very different in style from the first, The Cloths of Heaven set in the Gambia. Much less of the Evelyn Waugh...

Read review

Interpreters

Author: Robert KD

It was with sadness I learnt of the death of Sue Eckstein last year at the age of 53; Interpreters is only her second novel and judging by its scope she was just getting...

Read review

Latest Blogs

Search our database for travel-related fiction, travelogues, and memoirs