But soon ominous rumors from Cuba undermine the passengers’ fragile sense of safety.
Louis is like a surreal holiday for the refugees, with masquerade balls, exquisite meals, and polite, respectful service. After a frantic search to obtain visas, the Rosenthals and the Martins depart on the luxurious ship bound for Havana. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they’ll meet it together. 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. A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion in this “powerful and affecting” ( Kirkus Reviews) debut novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and Schindler’s List.īefore everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life.
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