The Brown House is a satirical novel set in Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. It concerns the Albrecht family who must adjust to life under a dictatorship. They live a few miles outside Berlin in Babelsberg, home to UFA film studio, where Greta Albrecht works. She renounced Judaism before she married Bernard but now realizes that in Nazi terms she is a Jew. Bernard is a physicist at Berlin University. He formerly worked for Fritz Opels on his rocket powered car. Their beautiful thirteen year old daughter Hannah's first kiss is when the family's troubles begin. On the next page Hannah will introduce you to her family.