The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and A Hundred Years of German History by Thomas Harding

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book and Kindle formats.

Alexander Haus website.

"A personal and imaginative yet overlong perspective on German history."

"The House by the Lake is a history of Germany told in a single house"

"Historical Fiction Discussion Questions"

"The author of the bestselling Hanns and Rudolf has taken a slice of family history and made it all encompassing"

15 discussion questions. Provided by Alexander Haus eV.

"It’s bold to call the tale of a wooden cabin 'a story of Germany', but Harding weaves the saga of the house’s many occupants so deftly into the wider drama of 20th-century German history that he pulls it off"

"Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages."