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A special event of cabaret in Berlin and the beginning of cinema, place against the climb and fall of Germany between World Warfare I and World Warfare II

As the clock chimed the switch of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite needed her first breathing. The illegitimate, soon orphaned little girl of an cabaret performer, she lands at a Catholic orphanage where she discovers refuge and the first in a string of friendships that changes the path of her life. When fellow orphan Hanne takes Lilly beyond their stone confines, presenting her to the seedy glamour of Berlin’s notorious nightlife, it begins for Lillly a trajectory of reinvention. From urchin to maid, young war bride-to-be, tingle-tangle bargirl, model, and script typist, Lilly is eventually transformed into one of Germany’s leading film stars and somebody in a exceptional love account that will span ages and continents—and be inextricable from the history unfolding around it.

Gripping, seductive, and masterfully written, The Glimmer Palace is a page-turning account of glitter and splendor, play and love, companionship and identity. The story of a fantastic heroine surviving in a fantastic time, it is stunning and unexpected in its telling, sensible and ambitious in its range, unhappy and beautiful and unforgettable.

Category: Historical