Eva Kranenburg: Falls jemand fragt, wer wir waren

About friendship and betrayal, ideals and their dark sides—Eva Kranenburg’s gripping story of two young women in a country in turmoil. When Rena disappears without a trace, her best friend Tilla sets out to find her. But she soon realizes: Nothing Rena ever told her about herself is true. The saleswoman who supposedly is Rena’s mother doesn’t have any children at all. The house at the address her friend gave her? A bombed-out ruin. The more desperately Tilla searches for Rena in her hometown of Halle, the more clearly the dark underbelly of the still-young GDR comes into focus. When the simmering discontent among the population finally erupts into the popular uprising of June 17, 1953, Tilla must decide how far she is willing to go—for the truth, for her friend, and for the question of what she truly believes in.

Eva Kranenburg is a psychotherapist, screenwriter, and novelist—she wrote, among other things, the screenplay for the Netflix series *Parfum*. *If Anyone Asks Who We Were* is her first novel for adults and was inspired by her own family history.