The Lilac People - Milo Todd - Counterpoint LLC

''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''--

Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781640097667

Contributor: Milo Todd

Dewey: 813.6

Category: World War, 1939-1945 ; Historical fiction ; Homophobia ; Gay rights ; Germany ; Social life and customs ; 20th century ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hirschfeld, Magnus ; Novels ; Violence against ; Sexual minorities ; Transgender people ; Transgender men ; Transgender fiction ; Transgender prisoners ; Queer fiction

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0075

Category: Chronological Period | 1940's

Publish Date: 05/05/2026