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The lilac people : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The lilac people : a novel / Milo Todd.

Todd, Milo, (author.).

Summary:

"In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science, Bertie works to improve queer rights in Germany and beyond, but everything changes when Hitler rises to power. The institute is raided, the Eldorado is shuttered, and queer people are rounded up. Bertie barely escapes with his girlfriend, Sofie, to a nearby farm. There they take on the identities of an elderly couple and live for more than a decade in isolation. In the final days of the war, with their freedom in sight, Bertie and Sofie find a young trans man collapsed on their property, still dressed in Holocaust prison clothes. They vow to protect him-not from the Nazis, but from the Allied forces who are arresting queer prisoners while liberating the rest of the country. Ironically, as the Allies' vise grip closes on Bertie and his family, their only salvation becomes fleeing to the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781640097032 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 303 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
  • Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Counterpoint, 2025.
Subject: Deception > Fiction.
Transgender men > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction.
Germany > Fiction.
Genre: Transgender fiction.
Queer fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

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