A German edition of Kantika is forthcoming from Mareverlag, the house that published The End of the Point (called Die Sommer der Porters in German). Kantika will be translated by Julianne Zaubitzer, who did such a great job with my last book. I’ve recently returned from a week in Berlin where I glimpsed the vibrant literary scene there, as well as the city’s efforts to memorialize and come to terms with the Holocaust as it played out on its streets. From the stolpersteine (stumbling stones) marking the last voluntary resident of people persecuted by the Nazis to the extraordinary tiny Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind, you feel the stories everywhere, often literally beneath your feet. It means a lot to me that Kantika, with its roots in a different expulsion and its Sephardic story, will become part of the conversation in Germany.