Helga G.: (English)

By Alessio Pasa

In June 1969, Helga M ller, 37, lands at JFK in New York from Germany. She is an employee of a German import-export company, who has required to be transferred to the American branch. Helga hides a weighty past, M ller is not her real surname and her family was important during the Nazi regime. In the post-war period, Helga had a troubled existence, she changed domicile several times and has always managed to hide her true origins.
This novel tells the story of this woman and her progressive awareness of Germany's guilt during the Hitler era. In America in the early 1970s, where the wind of individual freedom blows, Helga becomes aware of how her compatriots have not been able to fully face their past and understands how she in the first person could become the architect of German denazification.

Alessio Pasa, born in Genova, Italy, in 1955, has published numerous novels, in prose and verse. In 2009, "Appuntamento con il notaio (Appointment with the Notary)" by Lorenzo Barbera, between 2012 and 2018 the five volumes of the "Pentalogy Occhitelli" by Meligrana, in 2023 "Omesso Pentimento (Omitted repentance)" by Argonauta and "Liquidazione di una famiglia (Liquidation of a Family)" by Badiglione, in 2024 for Ventura "Autodaf di una moglie (Autodaf of a wife)" and, again in 2024, for Leonida "Traversata a nuoto (Swimming crossing)". An excerpt from one of his works was chosen by the magazine "Tempi Moderni" and Pasa is present in the RICERCABO Anthology published in 2024. "Helga G." is his first work published self-publishing mode, it is availbable in english and italian

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F798Y6QH
• ISBN13: 9798280441019
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"