The Invisible Bridge
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Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary and secret life, just as Europe\'s unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty. From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster and of a family, threatened with annihilation, bound by love and history.
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Product details
- Paperback | 624 pages
- 129 x 198 x 27mm | 426g
- 07 Jul 2011
- Penguin Books Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0141015098
- 9780141015095
- 45,111
Review Text
Old-fashioned in the best possible way: a big, generously involving story, utterly convincing in its texture and detail. Beautiful and sad Metro
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A sweeping epic, a good old-fashioned page-turner * Daily Mail * Stunning, gracefully written, altogether remarkable * LA Times * Gripping, moving * TLS * There are characters whose fate we care about, and a profoundly moving love story threaded between the tenacity of family and the monstrous grind of war. One that cries for you to linger over page by enthralling page -- Simon Schama * Financial Times * Powerful and affecting, crowded with the details of lives led and miseries inflicted * Sunday Times * Compelling, passionate, tragic * Marie Claire * Old-fashioned in the best possible way: a big, generously involving story, utterly convincing in its texture and detail. Beautiful and sad * Metro *
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About Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer was born in Florida in 1973. She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, and her collection of stories How to Breathe Underwater was a New York Times Notable Book.
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