Girl from Germany

The novel has been translated into 15 languages, published in 30 countries, and will be adapted for the screen by the producer of the films "The Departed" and "Shutter Island." The book is based on true events. Berlin, 1939. Hannah Rosenthal is a Jewish girl with an Aryan appearance, and now, when the streets of Berlin are draped with ominous flags, her family is no longer welcome in their homeland. A glimmer of hope appears in the form of the liner "St. Louis," promising Jews refuge in Cuba. But the ship, which was supposed to be their salvation, seems set to become their doom. Seven decades later in New York, on her twelfth birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her cousin Hannah. Anna and her mother travel to Havana to uncover the truth about their family's mysterious past.