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The night travelers, a novel, Armando Lucas Correa ; translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams, additional translation by Cecilia Molinari

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354)

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The night travelers

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Armando Lucas Correa ; translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams, additional translation by Cecilia Molinari

a novel

Berlin, 1931. Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to Lilith, the child she conceived with her lover, a Black jazz musician who has now disappeared. As a mixed-race child growing up during the Nazis' rise to power, Lilith will spend her childhood confined to the shadows, safe only in the night. As Lilith nears her seventh birthday, Ally sets in motion a plan that will send Lilith to safety halfway around the world, while Ally herself stays behind to face the horrors of war. Havana, 1959. Her life in Berlin a distant memory, Lilith falls in love with and marries Martin Bernal, a pilot in the Cuban air force with strong ties to the Batista government. As the flames of revolution ignite in Cuba and engulf her family, Lilith gives birth to a daughter, Nadine, and finds herself forced to make a terrible choice to protect her child. Berlin, 1988. Nadine is a scientist and scholar in Berlin, dedicated to ensuring the dignity of the remains of all those murdered by the Nazis. But it is her own family's history that she has spent a lifetime avoiding. It will take the encouragement of her daughter, Luna, to allow Nadine to uncover the truth about the sacrifices 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 and an unexpected return that changes everything she thought she knew

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