Ada

The German post-war history artfully intertwined with the story of his family. Christian Berkel has created a great novel. Christian Berkel tells the story of Ada: fleeing from post-war Germany to Argentina with her Jewish mother, growing up fatherless in a Catholic country, she returns to Berlin in 1954 with her mother Sala. To a foreign homeland, whose language she does not speak. There she meets her long-awaited father Otto, but family happiness remains elusive. In a society still shaped by authoritarianism, Ada's longing for freedom and independence grows. Following his bestseller "Der Apfelbaum," Christian Berkel dives into the dynamic era of the 1950s and 1960s in his second novel. Ada's journey, her path to herself, takes her from Buenos Aires through the student movements of Berlin and Paris to Woodstock.