Armando Lucas Correa

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion. Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family’s fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they’ll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. After a frantic search to obtain visas, the Rosenthals and the Martins depart on the luxurious ship bound for Havana. Life on board the St. Louis is like a surreal holiday for the refugees, with masquerade balls, exquisite meals, and polite, respectful service. But soon ominous rumors from Cuba undermine the passengers’ fragile sense of safety. From one day to the next, impossible choices are offered, unthinkable sacrifices are made, and the ship that once was their salvation seems likely to become their doom. Seven decades later in New York City, on her twelfth birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Its contents will inspire Anna and her mother to travel to Havana to learn the truth about their family’s mysterious and tragic past, a quest that will help Anna understand her place and her purpose in the world. The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of the Second World War to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana. Based on a true story, this masterful novel gives voice to the joys and sorrows of generations of exiles, forever seeking a place called home.

A Novel

The German Girl

“The Daughter’s Tale is immersive, both heartbreaking and redemptive, steeped in harrowing historical events and heroic acts of compassion that will have you reflecting on the best and worst the human heart has to offer. Fans of WWII history and book clubs will find depth and skillful storytelling here, but on a deeper level, searing questions about life, love, and the choices we make in the most impossible of circumstances.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours From the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl, an unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children—perfect for fans of Lilac Girls, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network. BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband’s has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Once in Haute-Vienne, her brief respite is inter­rupted by the arrival of Nazi forces, and Amanda finds herself in a labor camp where she must once again make a heroic sacrifice. NEW YORK, 2015. Eighty-year-old Elise Duval receives a call from a woman bearing messages from a time and country that she forced herself to forget. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise is shocked to discover that the letters were from her mother, written in German during the war. Despite Elise’s best efforts to stave off her past, seven decades of secrets begin to unravel. Based on true events, The Daughter’s Tale chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the war. Heart­breaking and immersive, it is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival, and redemption.

The Daughter's Tale

Night Travelers

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and desperate plan to send her daughter across the ocean to safety. Havana, 1958: Now an adult, Lilith has few memories of her mother or her childhood in Germany. Besides, she’s too excited for her future with her beloved Martin, a Cuban pilot with strong ties to the Batista government. But as the flames of revolution ignite, Lilith and her newborn daughter, Nadine, find themselves at a terrifying crossroads. Berlin, 1988: As a scientist in Berlin, Nadine is dedicated to ensuring the dignity of the remains of all those who were murdered by the Nazis. Yet she has spent her entire lifetime avoiding the truth about her own family’s history. It takes her daughter, Luna, to encourage Nadine to uncover the truth about the choices her mother and grandmother made to ensure the survival of their children. And it will fall to Luna to come to terms with a shocking betrayal that changes everything she thought she knew about her family’s past. Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of motherly love.

The Night Travelers

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered. Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she’s blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can’t help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband. Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity.

The Silence in Her Eyes

La niña alemana

Berlín, 1939. Hannah Rosenthal es una niña judía de familia acomodada cuya vida sufre un dramático vuelco tras el ascenso de los nazis al poder. Su única salida podría estar a bordo del St. Louis, un transatlántico que parte rumbo a Cuba con casi un millar de refugiados. Siete décadas más tarde, en la ciudad de Nueva York, Anna Rosen recibe un extraño paquete de un familiar desconocido en Cuba, su tía abuela Hannah. La búsqueda de Hannah ayudará a Anna a entender su lugar y su propósito en el mundo.

Den tyska flickan

La ragazza tedesca

The German Girl 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. 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. A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the St Louis, 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. 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 St Louis. 'The German Girltells a horrific story in profoundly human terms, and one ends up totally gripped and absorbed in the history' Julia Neuberger, author of On Being Jewish

1939. De Berlijnse Amanda vlucht met haar twee dochters naar Frankrijk, maar dan slaat het noodlot toe...

De verloren dochter

Av författaren till succéboken Den tyska flickan! New York City, 2015: Åttioåriga Elise Duval har bott i USA sedan hon kom från Frankrike som barn, strax efter andra världskriget. När en okänd kvinna plötsligt dyker upp med ett antal brev, skrivna av Elises mor på tyska under kriget, skakas hennes liv i grunden. Sakta men säkert börjar helt sekels hemligheter veckla ut sig. Berlin, 1939: Amanda Sternberg, bokhandelsägare och nybliven änka, flyr Nazityskland tillsammans med sina två döttrar, men när hon anländer till Haute-Vienne har hon bara en dotter kvar. Och deras frihet blir flyktig, Amanda och dottern fångas snart in och tas till ett koncentrationsläger. Dotterns berättelse är en hjärtskärande historia om kärlek, överlevnad och hopp, baserad på verkliga händelser, och beskriver ett av de mest brutala av Nazisternas dåd massakern i den pittoreska franska byn Oradour-Sur-Glane. Armando Lucas Correa är en flerfaldigt prisbelönt författare och journalist. Han föddes 1959 i Guantanamo, Kuba, men är numera bosatt i New York där han är redaktör för People en español, USA:s största spanskspråkiga tidning. Den tyska flickan blev en stor internationell succé och har sålt i över 60.000 ex bara i Sverige. Sagt om Den tyska flickan: »En drabbande historia om krig och terrorism skildrad helt genom de undrande barnens ögon.« Pia Lindestrand, BTJ »En av de vackraste, mest häpnadsväckande och berörande böcker jag någonsin läst.« Daniela Granvik, Bokduetten

Dotterns berättelse

Berlin, 1931. Ally, en talangfull ung poet, är ensam och rädd när hon föder sin dotter Lilith, som är av blandad etnicitet. Nazisterna är på väg att ta makten i landet och hon förstår att hon måste gömma sitt barn för att skydda henne från Hitlers rasideologi. Men ju äldre dottern blir, desto svårare blir det att hålla henne gömd. Ally tvingas sätta sin dotter i säkerhet på andra sidan Atlanten. Havanna, 1958. Lilith har få minnen av sin mor och barndom i Tyskland. Hon är lycklig med sin älskade Martin, en kubansk pilot med stark koppling till Batistaregimen. Men när när revolutionens låga flammar upp i landet, står Lilith och parets nyfödda dotter Nadine plötsligt vid ett skrämmande vägskäl. Berlin, 1988. Nadine arbetar som forskare och är fast besluten om att bevara minnet av dem som mördades av nazisterna. Ändå har hon under hela sitt liv undvikit sin egen familjs historia. Men Nadines dotter, Luna, uppmuntrar henne att ta reda på sanningen bakom de val som Nadines mamma och mormor gjorde för att skydda sina barn. Intet ont anandes kommer Luna att få reda på en hemlighet som förändrar allt hon trodde att hon visste om sin familjs förflutna. Åtskilda av tiden men förenade av sina uppoffringar, ger de fyra kvinnorna sig ut på varsin resa för att finna sig själva och upptäcker att de är levande bevis på kraften i en mors kärlek. ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA är en flerfaldigt prisbelönad författare och journalist. Han föddes 1959 i Guantanamo på Kuba men är numera bosatt i New York. Han debuterade med den internationella bästsäljaren Den tyska flickan som hyllats av såväl läsare som kritiker. Den fristående uppföljaren, Dotterns berättelse, har även den sålts till ett flertal länder. De som färdas om natten är hans tredje roman. "En häpnadsväckande berättelse som spänner över flera generationer. Läsarna kommer att bli djupt berörda.” Publishers Weekly

De som färdas om natten

vier vrouwen, samengebracht door liefde, in een wereld verscheurd door oorlog

Dochters van de tijd

Vier generaties sterke vrouwen ervaren liefde, verlies, oorlog en hoop Berlijn, 1931. Ally Keller, een getalenteerde dichteres, bevalt na een affaire met een zwarte jazzmuzikant van een dochter, Lilith. Als een paar jaar later de nazi’s aan de macht komen, probeert Ally haar dochter wanhopig buiten het zicht te houden van Hitlers aanhangers. Dat wordt echter steeds moeilijker naarmate Lilith ouder wordt. Ally zet een gevaarlijk plan in werking om haar dochter in veiligheid te brengen aan de andere kant van de oceaan. Havana, 1958. Lilith heeft weinig herinneringen aan haar moeder of aan haar jeugd in Duitsland. Ze kijkt liever vooruit: naar de toekomst met haar geliefde Martin, een Cubaanse piloot die sterke banden heeft met de regering van dictator Batista. Maar als Batista verdreven wordt en de vlammen van de revolutie oplaaien, zijn Lilith en haar pasgeboren dochter Nadine in gevaar. Berlijn, 1988. Als wetenschapper zet Nadine zich in voor een waardige nagedachtenis van iedereen die door de nazi’s is vermoord. Toch heeft ze de geschiedenis van haar eigen familie nooit willen weten. Haar dochter Luna moedigt Nadine aan om de keuzes die haar moeder en grootmoeder maakten te onderzoeken. Op haar beurt moet Luna in het reine zien te komen met een schokkend verraad dat alles verandert wat ze dacht te weten over haar familie. In de pers ‘Het feit dat het verhaal is gebaseerd op een drama dat echt is gebeurd, maakt het extra lezenswaardig.’ Nederlands Dagblad ‘Op feiten gebaseerde, goed vertaalde roman die indringend de gevolgen laat zien van het antisemitisme van de nazi’s voor een joodse familie, ook voor de latere generaties.’ NBD Biblion ‘Correa laat naast zijn hartverscheurende beschrijvingen van de nazi ́s ook de onvoorwaardelijke liefde van een moeder voor haar kinderen zien.’ De Baarnsche Courant

Vier vrouwen, samengebracht door liefde, in een wereld verscheurd door oorlog

From the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl, an unforgettable, “searing” (People) saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children—perfect for fans of Lilac Girls, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network. Seven decades of secrets unravel with the arrival of a box of letters from the distant past, taking readers on a harrowing journey from Nazi-occupied Berlin, to the South of France, to modern-day New York City. Berlin, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the South of France. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Once in Haute-Vienne, her brief respite is inter­rupted by the arrival of Nazi forces, and Amanda finds herself in a labor camp where she must once again make a heroic sacrifice. New York, 2015. Eighty-year-old Elise Duval receives a call from a woman bearing messages from a time and country that she forced herself to forget. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise is shocked to discover that the letters were from her mother, written in German during the war. Her mother’s words unlock a floodgate of memories, a lifetime of loss un-grieved, and a chance—at last—for closure. Based on true events and “breathtakingly threaded together from start to finish with the sound of a beating heart” (The New York Times Book Review), The Daughter’s Tale is an unforgettable family saga of love, survival, and redemption.

Baseado numa história real, A Garota Alemã é um romance magistral. A bordo do famoso transatlântico St. Louis, uma garota de 11 anos e 936 refugiados judeus fogem da Alemanha Nazista. Berlim, 1939. Hannah Rosenthal, de 11 anos, tinha uma vida de contos de fadas. Ela passava as tardes no parque com seu melhor amigo, Leo Martin. Mas, agora, as ruas estão cheias de nazistas. Eles vislumbram uma esperança para sair desse inferno: o St. Louis, um transatlântico que pode propiciar aos judeus uma travessia segura para Cuba. Mas logo as circunstâncias da guerra mudam e o navio que era sua salvação agora parece ser a sua sentença de morte. Nova York, 2014. Anna Rosen, ao fazer 12 anos, recebe um envelope misterioso de Hannah, uma tia-avó que criou o pai falecido. O conteúdo do envelope inspira Anna e a mãe a viajarem a Cuba para conhecer Hannah e descobrir a verdade sobre o trágico passado da família.

A Garota Alemã

Em 1939, um casal vê seus sonhos destruídos quando os nazistas invadem a cidade de Berlim. Enquanto o marido Júlio é levado para um campo de concentração, a esposa Amanda foge para o sul da França, onde é obrigada a fazer uma escolha impossível. Após um tempo escondida, Amanda é levada pelas forças nazistas a um campo de trabalhos forçados onde precisa mais uma vez reunir forças para fazer um sacrifício heroico. Já em 2015, Elise, uma francesa que chegou a Nova York depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, fica chocada ao descobrir que décadas de segredos de seu passado começam a vir à tona através de cartas escritas por sua mãe. A Filha Esquecida é uma saga familiar sobre o amor e a resiliência diante dos grandes desafios da vida.

A Filha Esquecida

Anotación editor: La historia de la experiencia desgarradora de una niña de doce años de edad, que huyen de los nazis ocuparon Alemania con su familia y su mejor amigo, sólo para descubrir que el asilo en el extranjero se les había prometido es una ilusión. Cuba, 368pp.

Armando Lucas Correa

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