Together they travel Berlin, hiding from the “Ogres” - her parlance for Nazis - and sharing a passion for adventure.

Two women on the S-Bahn give “off waves of sweat mixed with rose essence and tobacco.” Berlin after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) - “a stench of broken pipes, sewage, and smoke.” Hannah’s childhood nanny, recalled through “the fragrance of her lemon-bergamot-cedarwood cologne mingled with the smell of sweat and spices.” Hannah also experiences the world through her beloved friend Leo Martin. Hannah experiences the world through smell. The first is Hannah Rosenthal, a Jewish girl who is 12 in 1939, having lived a bourgeois existence in Berlin before the Nazis’ rise to power. The novel alternates chapters between two narrators. His first book, En Busca de Emma ( In Search of Emma: Two Fathers, One Daughter and the Dream of a Family) is a memoir about the arduous and emotionally fraught journey of starting a family with his male partner. Among other professional activities, he is editor-in-chief of People en Espanõl.

The United States, too, played a key role in the horrors that transpired, and was very late in coming to a public admission of guilt.Ĭorrea is a journalist. Cuba is not the only country with a selective memory.

Louis’s ill-fated passengers, but also for erasing the crime from Cuba’s history books. Armando Lucas Correa, raised in Cuba before emigrating to the United States, writes with a political agenda as well - to out Cuba not only for denying sanctuary to most of the St. Louis, whose 1939 voyage from Hamburg to Cuba exemplifies the fatal consequences of closed borders and failed humanity, of hope gone horrendously wrong. The German Girl (in Spanish, translated by Nick Caistor), is a novel with a purpose: To expose the atrocity of the S.S.

The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa