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The invisible bridge / Julie Orringer.

Summary:

An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war. "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."

Record details

ISBN: 9781400041169
ISBN: 1400041163
ISBN: 9780670914586
ISBN: 0670914584
Physical Description: x, 602 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part One: The Street of Schools. A Letter -- The Western Europe Express -- The Quartier Latin -- École Spéciale -- Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt -- Work -- A Luncheon -- Gare d'Orsay -- Bois de Vincennes -- Rue de Sévigné -- Winter Holiday -- Part Two: Broken Glass. What Happened at the Studio -- Visitor -- A Haircut -- In the Tuileries -- The Stone Cottage -- Synagogue de la Victoire -- Café Bédouin -- An Alley -- A Dead Man -- Part Three: Departures and Arrivals. A Dinner Party -- Signorina di Sabato -- Sportsclub Saint-Germain -- The S.S. Île De France -- The Hungarian Consulate -- Part Four: The Invisible Bridge. Subcarpathia -- The Snow Goose -- Furlough -- Bánhida Camp -- Barna and the General -- Tamás Lévi -- Szentendre Yard -- Passage to the East -- Part Five: By Fire. Turka -- The Tatars in Hungary -- A Fire in the Snow -- An Escape -- Occupation -- Farewell -- Nightmare -- The Dead -- A Name.