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The Night Traveler
Armando Lucas Correa
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R450
R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
Save R78 (17%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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. "A stunning multigenerational story" (Publishers
Weekly, starred review), The Night Traveler reveals the power of
self-discovery and motherly love.
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…  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…
 Havana, 1958: Lilith has few memories of her mother or her
childhood in Germany. But as the flames of revolution ignite,
Lilith and her newborn daughter, Nadine, find themselves at a
terrifying crossroads. Â 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 will fall to her daughter 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.
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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... 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... Havana,
1958: Lilith has few memories of her mother or her childhood in
Germany. 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 will fall to
her daughter 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 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
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The Silence in Her Eyes
Armando Lucas Correa
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R762
R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
Save R179 (23%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
For readers whose hearts were broken by The Tattooist of Auschwitz
'Correa's prose is atmospheric, but what's most fascinating about
this novel is his portrayal of terrified yet strong female
characters' New York Times New York City, 2015: Eighty-year-old
Elise Duval is a French Catholic who arrived in New York after the
Second World War. When a woman from Cuba visits with letters
written in German to Elise from her mother during the war, her
world is forever changed as she remembers a time and country she'd
long since forgotten and seven decades of secret unravel. Berlin,
1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing
Nazi Germany with her two young daughters. She heads towards
unoccupied France, but with such a hard fight for freedom, a
peaceful life of safety is hard to find. Based on true events, The
Daughter's Tale chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities
perpetrated by the Nazis during the Second World War: the 1944
massacre of all the inhabitants of a small, idyllic village in the
south of France. Heartbreaking and immersive, The Daughter's Tale
is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival, and hope
against all odds.
La conmovedora historia de un hombre que siempre quiso ser padre
y el largo camino que finalmente culminO en un sueNo hecho
realidad
Armando Lucas Correa lo tenIa todo: un trabajo increIble como el
editor de "People en EspaNol," una pareja estable y una vida llena
de viajes y entrevistas con glamorosos celebridades. Pero con el
nuevo milenio, algo cambiO. Se le despertO un sueNo enterrado en su
alma desde sus primeros aNos de vida en Cuba: el sueNo de ser
padre.
Luego de una extensa investigaciOn de todas sus posibilidades,
optO por la subrogaciOn. El mEtodo fue largo, arduo y costoso, con
pruebas, trAmites y decisiones que parecIan interminables, pero con
la ayuda de la ciencia, una donante de Ovulos, una madre
gestacional, muchIsima paciencia y el apoyo incondicional de su
pareja y familia, finalmente llegO su hija Emma.
"En busca de Emma" es una historia real, increIble y hermosa del
viaje agotador y emocionante que llevO a un hombre a convertirse en
padre. Nada lo frenO y, sabiendo que su familia no serIa la clAsica
y tradicional, igual siguiO adelante y cumpliO su sueNo, tomando
todos los retos y los altibajos emocionales como el fuego que lo
avivO e impulsO a seguir adelante para finalmente encontrar a
Emma.
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