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December 15, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that is perfect for holiday giving and that you may want to include on your “to me/from me” list. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Friday, December 16th at 4:59pm ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE GERMAN GIRL by Armando Lucas Correa, a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection that is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Holiday Cheer contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE GERMAN GIRL by Armando Lucas Correa
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THE GERMAN GIRL is a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of THE NIGHTINGALE, SCHINDLER'S LIST and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE. It's about 12-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion.
Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. 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. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they’ll meet it together.
Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. After a frantic search to obtain visas, the Rosenthals and the Martins depart on the luxurious ship bound for Havana. Life on board the St. Louis is like a surreal holiday for the refugees, with masquerade balls, exquisite meals and polite, respectful service. But soon ominous rumors from Cuba undermine the passengers’ fragile sense of safety. From one day to the next, impossible choices are offered, unthinkable sacrifices are made, and the ship that once was their salvation seems likely to become their doom.
Seven decades later in New York City, on her 12th birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Its contents will inspire Anna and her mother to travel to Havana to learn the truth about their family’s mysterious and tragic past, a quest that will help Anna understand her place and her purpose in the world.
THE GERMAN GIRL sweeps from Berlin at the brink of the Second World War 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 masterful novel gives voice to the joys and sorrows of generations of exiles, forever seeking a place called home.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary on the book.
-Visit Armando Lucas Correa's official website and Instagram.
-Connect with Armando Lucas Correa on Facebook and Twitter.
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Click here to enter the contest by Friday, December 16th at 4:59pm ET. |
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