Ulla Lenze & Hisham El Kheshen in Conversation

Ulla Lenze and Hisham El Kheshen exchange their ideas about working with historical material for their latest novels. In her latest novel, The Radio Operator, Lenze tells of a very special kind of spy. Based on a true story it is the fictional story of the author’s great-uncle who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II. El Kheshen’s bestselling novel It Happened in Berlin follows the lives of two families separated by ideologies and politics and connected through blood and the changing ownership of a priceless Stradivarius violin.