{"product_id":"9781466834651","title":"Passing Through Havana: A Novel Of A Wartime Girlhood In The Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaudia'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 \u003ci\u003ePassing Through Havana\u003c\/i\u003e you will discover the price of both.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125783380208,"sku":"9781466834651","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466834651_p0.jpg?v=1769891147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466834651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}