Passing Through Havana
A Novel Of A Wartime Girlhood In The Caribbean
by Felicia Rosshandler
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Pub Date Dec 20 2012 | Archive Date Mar 01 2013
Description
For some Europeans fleeing the gathering Holocaust on the Continent, the
bright wash of Cuba's azure skies and sparkling sands offered a last refuge. For
Suze, a strong, seductive woman who saved her family from Hitler's Jewish
witch-hunt with her Magda Lupescu-an appeal and wile, Havana meant life and
freedom after their determined, often desperate, flight across Europe and
the Atlantic.
But for Claudia, Suze's blond, blue-eyed adolescent daughter, the Latin tempo and allure of upper-class Catholic society are too tempting and draw her away from her parents and their expatriate community and into the friendships and parties of Cuba's pre-Castro gilded set. Her Aryan features and skill at "passing" allow her to recast her identity for the circumstance, and each time deny her own feeling of rootlessness.
One evening, at a party at the Havana Yacht Club, she falls in love with a young German, who does not know she is Jewish, and Claudia is caught up in a taboo relationship both frightening and erotic.
Claudia's story explores another side of the Holocaust: about Jews who escaped to exotic places only to rediscover their heritage of homelessness; and about both the psychology of self-hate and the inner strength of individuals who survive. Novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes sums it up this way: "Is love or is history the answer? If you read Passing Through Havana you will discover the price of both."
But for Claudia, Suze's blond, blue-eyed adolescent daughter, the Latin tempo and allure of upper-class Catholic society are too tempting and draw her away from her parents and their expatriate community and into the friendships and parties of Cuba's pre-Castro gilded set. Her Aryan features and skill at "passing" allow her to recast her identity for the circumstance, and each time deny her own feeling of rootlessness.
One evening, at a party at the Havana Yacht Club, she falls in love with a young German, who does not know she is Jewish, and Claudia is caught up in a taboo relationship both frightening and erotic.
Claudia's story explores another side of the Holocaust: about Jews who escaped to exotic places only to rediscover their heritage of homelessness; and about both the psychology of self-hate and the inner strength of individuals who survive. Novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes sums it up this way: "Is love or is history the answer? If you read Passing Through Havana you will discover the price of both."
Advance Praise
About the Author
Felicia Rosshandler is the product of three strikingly different cultures, the German, the French and the Spanish. She was born in Berlin, raised in Antwerp, and grew up in Havana. She landed in the United States at the age of seventeen where she quickly added Anglo optimism to the salad. She has raised three American sons in New York.
Always startling, her ability to navigate different cultures has opened bright and dark doors. Her novel, "Passing Through Havana" examines the multicultural experience as propelled by love and war. Subsequent novels have dealt with the cataclysm of modernity and dislocation. She has just completed "Landing In New York", a series of memoir stories that chronicle her passage through the Twentieth Century.
Rosshandler has worked for the international press, including Tokyo Shimbun, Paris Match and LIFE En Español. While at LIFE she developed an eye for photography. Her images of naked Barbie, "The Venus of America", have been exhibited at The Kitchen and galleries in New York, Woodstock and Venice, Italy.
She lives in Manhattan with the writer Edmundo Desnoes.
Felicia Rosshandler is the product of three strikingly different cultures, the German, the French and the Spanish. She was born in Berlin, raised in Antwerp, and grew up in Havana. She landed in the United States at the age of seventeen where she quickly added Anglo optimism to the salad. She has raised three American sons in New York.
Always startling, her ability to navigate different cultures has opened bright and dark doors. Her novel, "Passing Through Havana" examines the multicultural experience as propelled by love and war. Subsequent novels have dealt with the cataclysm of modernity and dislocation. She has just completed "Landing In New York", a series of memoir stories that chronicle her passage through the Twentieth Century.
Rosshandler has worked for the international press, including Tokyo Shimbun, Paris Match and LIFE En Español. While at LIFE she developed an eye for photography. Her images of naked Barbie, "The Venus of America", have been exhibited at The Kitchen and galleries in New York, Woodstock and Venice, Italy.
She lives in Manhattan with the writer Edmundo Desnoes.
Marketing Plan
Visit the author's website at FeliciaRossHandler.com
Visit the author's website at FeliciaRossHandler.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781466834651 |
| PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |
