Ocean
Published by Diogenes as Ozean
Original Title: Ozean

Friedchen and Paula meet in 1932, and it’s friendship at first sight. Two women who are hungry for life, filled with hopes and dreams. Their friendship — as they pledge to one another during their long nights of dancing in Berlin — will last forever. Friedchen just happens to fall in love with Paula’s charming cousin Max. But then Hitler comes to power — and Paula and Max are Jewish. Katharina Höftmann takes us on a journey through a century, across the ocean and beyond all the disruptions that still resonate today.

Contemporary Literature, Novel
336 pages
2026

978-3-257-07393-5
Katharina
Höftmann

Katharina Höftmann was born in 1984 in Rostock. She studied Psychology and German-Jewish history in Berlin, is a freelance journalist, the author of numerous novels and non-fiction titles, and writes the blog Good Morning, Tel Aviv. She lives with her family in Tel Aviv.

Photo: © Dana Lavie