The_Invisible_Bridge_Julie_Orringer
2012 Nominated

The Invisible Bridge

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, 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 Konyár 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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Julie
Orringer

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

A novel based on the author’s own grandparents’ story – 1937 European coming of age story is seamlessly interwoven with a tense account of a family threatened by war. The emotional force and scope vividly capture the time and place – Literary fiction.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf

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