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House on the Hill
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781049221571
Publisher: Barry John Cohen
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The House on the Hill, Australian author Barry John Cohen delivers a powerful and resonant finale to a multi-generational story of exile, endurance, and rediscovery.
Inspired by true events, the novel follows Lotte Levy, the daughter of Holocaust family victims living in post-war Cape Town, after the Nazis stole their huge business, 22-room home, and art, and who uncovers a family painting long believed destroyed. Her search for its origin draws her across Europe-and into the shadow of the man who profited from her family's suffering: a former Nazi living behind a carefully constructed new identity in Luderitz, Namibia.
Spanning continents and generations, Cohen's work explores how art can carry memory, how truth can survive decades of silence, and how one woman's compassion becomes an act of resistance against forgetting.
House on the Hill is a dark, atmospheric thriller about a family estate where buried crimes, inherited guilt, and decades of silence refuse to stay hidden.
This story reminds us that remembrance is not only mourning-it is justice made visible.
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