In this book The Last Gift of Paulina Hoffmann We revisit the Second World War to immerse ourselves in one of those personal stories that emerge between the physical rubble of the city of Berlin and between the gray misery that uniformed the souls of so many victims on the inside.
Paulina Hoffmann is a young woman who goes from recognizing the ignominious Nazi regime during its heyday to recognizing the inhuman punishment of the Red Army that ended up massacring Berlin, a city turned into the last battlefield where all the pending accounts would be settled, as if the inhabitants of that city were all guilty of Hitler's attempt to implement his final solution.
Madrid, which also lived its own life, seems on a scale a calm paradise (or rather calm as a parenthesis between upcoming storms). It is in that Madrid stopped in time and away from bloody Europe, where Paulina can learn to forget. Oblivion is never completely forgotten, dreams are in charge of tearing and opening a peeling life that has been painted again. But Paulina overcomes everything, setting herself the goal of trying to be happy in her new life. He is still young ...
And in the end it succeeds. Meet love and establish a new family free from the long shadow that Berlin has become. And he has children, and ends up having a granddaughter: Alicia.
It will be Alicia who, many years later and after Paulina's death, decides to travel alone to Berlin to immerse herself in the past of the woman from whom she learned so much and to understand her grandmother's last secret, a true survivor who managed to decide her own destiny despite the memories and the silence.
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