An unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character-vibrant and post-apocalyptic, flat and featureless except for its rivers, its lakes, its legions of bicyclists. Here in Berlin, she encounters a people's history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine only to return home to a family who doesn't believe him, the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage...

"From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a new novel that follows three generations of a divided family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, America, Germany, and Russia in the new millennium"--

A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.