Reading as part of the 1st international literature festival graal-müritz
Michi Strausfeld, long-time mediator of Latin American literature and profound connoisseur of the continent, presents her new book The Empress of Galapagos. In it, she paints a fascinating panorama of German traces in Latin America - from early adventurers, Jesuits and explorers to Jewish emigrants and their National Socialist persecutors to dreamers and fortune seekers. With narrative power and historical depth, she tells of encounters, aberrations and visions - a lively cultural history spanning five centuries.
