Den tyska flickan

Synopsis of Den tyska flickan

«Den tyska flickan» is the historical novel by Armando Lucas Correa, published by Louise Bäckelin Förlag in paperback (349 pages, in Swedish).

In 1939, young Hannah Rosenthal flees antisemitic Berlin with her family aboard the St. Louis bound for Cuba, but the journey goes wrong when they are denied entry. Seventy-five years later, Anna Rosen receives a package in New York from a Cuban relative and travels to Havana to uncover the truth about her family's past.

The Swedish translation is by Jessica Hallén; the work was originally published in Spanish as «La niña alemana» in 2016.

For readers of historical fiction and Second World War fiction, interested in exile and family memory.