Description

A beautiful novel exploring the little-known story of Anne Frank’s life before she went into hiding – from bestselling, award-winning author Alice Hoffman and published in cooperation with the Anne Frank House.

In soaring prose, bestselling author Alice Hoffman brings Anne Frank to life on the page, drawing from her extensive research in Europe and the United States, to depict her experiences from the moment the Nazis invade the Netherlands until her family is forced into hiding in the annex of her father’s office building at 263 Prinsengracht, in Amsterdam.

As state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters, the Jews of the Netherlands are caught in an inescapable swell of violence and hate, and Anne is shaped as both a young woman and as a writer who will change the world.