Our Bookshelf

Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.

The Berlin Shadow

In 1939, 12-year-old Hans Lichtenstein escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport, leaving behind a family largely lost after Kristallnacht. Decades later, as Hans enters old age, he and his son Jonathan take a road trip back to Berlin to retrace that historic journey, confronting intergenerational trauma and family silencce.