Years after her grandfather's death, journalist, Sarah Wildman, stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labelled Correspondence: Patients A G. What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's pre-war Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy - Valerie Scheftel - her grandfather's lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.
Valy's name wasn't unknown to her - Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. She was your grandfather's true love, her grandmother said at the time and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy's story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom.
Obsessed with Valy's story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. In the course of discovering Valy's ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather's triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life. In the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.
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"In spellbinding prose, Sarah Wildman traces her quest to understand what happened to her grandfather s mysterious lover whom he had to leave behind when he fled Vienna in 1938. Revealing deeper truths about history and the tricky nature of memory, Paper Loveis a breathtakingly powerful and beautiful new book. David Grann, author of"The Lost City of Z"
""Paper Love" begins with a quest for a lost lover, and then radically inverts that path. Here the search becomes a tale of not one person, but of how each person is so much more than one, how no single life has meaning without all the others that encircle it. Wildman's spellbinding story, with its dramatic and unexpected twists, breathes each forgotten person back to life. Dara Horn, author of"The World To Come"
Sarah Wildman is a member of the last generation of young Jews who grew up in families presided over by Holocaust survivors and their stories both the reliable tales and the necessary myths. Wildman long ago turned her attention to the complex afterlife of the Holocaust, and this book thoroughly researched, adventurously reported, and vulnerably written has fulfilled her promise as the most important literary representative of her generation. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of"A Sense of Direction"
"["Paper Love"]powerfully touches on issues of memory, loss and identity that of both subject and author." "Jewish Woman Magazine""
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