From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a
gripping historical novel of love and betrayal, set in wartime
Berlin In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man,
arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming
an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the
beautiful model, Kristin, who soon becomes his energetic yet
enigmatic guide to the bustling and cosmopolitan city. Kristin
teaches the nai ve Friedrich how to take care of himself in a city
filled with danger, and brings him to an underground jazz club
where they drink cognac, dance, and kiss. The war feels far away to
Friedrich as he falls in love with Kristin, the pair cocooned
inside their palatial rooms at the Grand Hotel, where even
Champagne and fresh fruit can be obtained thanks to the black
market. But as the months pass, the mood in the city darkens yet
further, with the Nazi Party tightening their hold on everyday life
of all Berliners, terrorizing anyone who might be disloyal to the
Reich. Kristin's loyalties are unclear, and she is not everything
she seems, as his realizes when one frightening day she comes back
to Friedrich's hotel suite in tears, battered and bruised. She
tells him an astonishing secret: that her real name is Stella, and
that she is Jewish, passing for Aryan. Fritz comforts her, but he
soon realizes that Stella's control of the situation is rapidly
slipping out of her grasp, and that the Gestapo have an impossible
power over her. As Friedrich confronts Stella's unimaginable
choices, he finds himself woefully unprepared for the history he is
living through. Based in part on a real historical character,
Stella sets a tortured love story against the backdrop of wartime
Berlin, and powerfully explores questions of naivete , young love,
betrayal, and the horrors of history.
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