The Pretense of Memory

By C.F. Yetmen

A SEQUEL TO THE ANNA KLEIN TRILOGY

In a nation eager to forget, one young man dares to remember, risking everything to make the truth impossible to ignore.

In West Germany in 1958, the post-war miracle economy is booming and everyone seems to have forgotten - or misremembered - the crimes of the Third Reich entirely. But Oskar Gruenewald hasn't. An idealist despite his traumatic past as a twice orphaned refugee, he enrolled in law school as a pathway to achieving a semblance of justice. But he soon learns the system is stacked against him. When a chance meeting with Romy Erlanger, an enigmatic artist with a fondness for provocation, draws Oskar into an unseen world and brings him face-to-face with the crimes - and criminals - no one wants to remember, he fears his own carefully constructed memories are a fraud. Oskar has to decide if throwing out the rule book to set the record straight is worth the potential cost to his own future - if it even works at all. But sometimes, to get people's attention, you just have to get creative.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998889067
• ISBN13: 9780998889061
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Ypsilon & Co. Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"