The Invisible Bridge (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Orringer, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410445054 ISBN 13: 9781410445056

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2012

Synopsis

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter's recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his--and his family's--history. From the small Hungarian town of Konyar to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in labor camps, "The Invisible Bridge "tells the story of a family shattered and remade in history's darkest hour.

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Review:

Praise for Julie Orringer’s "The Invisible Bridge"
 
"One of the best books of the year."
—Junot Diaz, author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
“If you’re still looking for a ‘big’ novel to carry into the summer holidays—one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you’re slumming—then Julie Orringer’s "The Invisible Bridge" is the book you want. . . . Stunning. . . . In every admirable sense an ‘ambitious’ historical novel, in which large human emotions—profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties—play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty. . . . Orringer traverses this perilous rhetorical terrain with remarkable—and, more important, convincing, self-possession. . . . Remarkably affecting. . . . A life powerfully, unsentimentally and inspiringly evoked in this gracefully written and altogether remarkable first novel.

"Profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty. . . . A stunning first novel." --"Los Angeles Times"
"Truly breathtaking. . . . A sensual feast." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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""The Invisible Bridge "is a tale of war-torn lovers, family and survival of the luckiest rather than the fittest. . . . Wonderfully evoked." --"Chicago Tribune "
"Orringer's writing is glorious." --"The Oregonian
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"What begins as a jewel-box romance soon breaks open into a harrowing saga of war. Orringer . . . conveys a piercing sense of what it means to be fated by one's blood." --"Vogue "
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"At the risk of oversimplifying things, this novel shows how Michael Chabon would write if he grew up a ballet-dancing girl instead of a comic-book-loving boy." --"The Plain Dealer "
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"[Orringer] make[s] us care so deeply about the people of her all-too-real fictional world. For the time it takes to read th

From the Back Cover:

Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a young student of architecture, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the rue de Sévigné. As he becomes drawn into the extraordinary and secret life of the letter's recipient, his elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena and their younger brother leaves school for the stage, Europe's unfolding tragedy sends their lives into terrifying uncertainty.

From the Hungarian village of Konyár to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the lonely chill of Andras's attic to the enduring passion he discovers on the rue de Sévigné, 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, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of three brothers bound by love and history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1410445054
• ISBN 13: 9781410445056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 945