
The German Girl Av Armando Lucas Correa
A beautifully written debut novel set aboard the liner St Louis as it travels from Hamburg to Cuba - supposedly taking Jewish families to a safe new home. Both intensely moving and thought-provoking, this novel is based on a true story, one of the most devastating, yet little known, tragedies of WWII....
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<B><I>The German Girl </I>sweeps from Berlin at the brink of WWII to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11th, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana. Based on a true story, this wonderful novel gives voice to the joys and sorrows of generations of exiles, forever seeking a place called home. </B><BR/><BR/> Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthallived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in swastikas and Hannah is no longer welcome in the places she once considered home.<BR/><BR/> A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the <I>St Louis</I>, a transatlantic liner that promises Jews safe passage to Cuba. The Rosenthals sell everything to fund visas and tickets. At first the liner feels like luxury, but as they travel the circumstances of war change, and it soon becomes their prison.<BR/><BR/> Seven decades later in New York, on her twelfth birthday Anna Rosen receives a package from Hannah, the great-aunt she never met but who raised her deceased father. Anna and her mother immediately travel to Cuba to meet this elderly relative, and for the first time Hannah tells them the untold story of her voyage on the <I>St Louis</I>.<BR/><BR/> ‘<I>The German Girl</I><B></B>tells a horrific story in <B>profoundly human terms</B>, and one ends up<B> totally gripped and absorbed</B> in the history’ <B>Julia Neuberger, </B>author of <I>On Being Jewish</I><BR/><BR/>
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