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Chargement... The invisible bridge [a novel] (original 2010; édition 2010)par Julie Orringer
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Invisible Bridge par Julie Orringer (2010)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Simon Scharma observes, on the cover of the edition I read 'You don't so much read it as live it'. It's true. This is an immersive story, mainly set between about 1937 and 1945, about a Hungarian Jew, Andras, who spends time in Paris as a young architecture student, and meets the slightly older Hungarian widow who will become the love of his life. The story follows him as he returns home, and as Hungary becomes ever more implicated in the war. The story of the Jewish population in Hungary isn't well known in the UK. It's clear that while they were not, on the whole, sent to concentration camps, their conditions in the Labour Corps of the army - all that was open to Jewish men - were no better. I coudn't leave this book till I had finished it. It's well written, and beautifully researched, though Orringer wears her learning lightly. I'll read more of her work. Overall, I liked this book, though it could have done with some editing. (758 pages) It's inspired by the authors family history; which I think made the details seem a bit too precious to her. The book is about a Hungarian Jewish family and starts in 1937. So the whole book is very stressful, you start of wanting to shake the main character, Andras, and tell him to leave the continent. (not that that was easy at that point, but he could have tried!) But he didn't have foresight and so instead goes to Paris, studies architecture, and falls in love with a ballet dancer with a backstory. The depiction on 1937 Paris was interesting, and the plot involves a theater company, which is interesting. But of course, so stressful, and the Hungarian parts are more stressful still. Books about the Holocaust show us at our worse and our best. It's horrifying to read of the atrocities humans are capable of committing but it's also inspiring to read of the strength needed to survive those atrocities. What makes The The Invisible Bridge stand out for a lot of other Holocaust literature is that it's told from a point of view not often heard from; The Hungarian Jew. Hungary was an ally of Germany during World War Two but the Hungarian Jews were treated like animals and actually wished for Hitler's defeat. Sadly, when The Russians moved in and took over, it was a case of "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss" París estaba esperándole, y allí el joven frecuentaría la mejor escuela de arquitectura de la época. Andras llevaba en el bolsillo una carta, sin saber aun que aquellos pocos folios le llevarían a conocer a Klara, una mujer frágil y hermosa, que miraba el mundo con ojos tristes y dirigía una escuela de ballet clásico.Tras unos meses de dudas y recelos, su historia de amor empezaba a tener cuerpo, pero ¿por qué de repente tanto pesar, tanto dolor en el rostro de Klara?, ¿por qué tanto silencio oscuro? En la Historia, en esa pesadilla hecha de cruces gamadas y alambres que marcó el siglo XX, hubo que buscar las respuestas…De la pequeña aldea húngara de Konyár a las calles de París, de la música dulce de la rue de Sevigné a los campos de concentración, de la pasión a la tortura, las distancias a veces parecen insalvables, pero las ganas de vivir y el talento tienden puentes invisibles que nos llevan allá donde la vida aún tiene sentido y el futuro nos está esperando.
"The Invisible Bridge" is a stunning first novel, not just in the manner that Orringer's acclaimed short stories seemed to predict, but in a wholly unexpected fashion. Her short fiction is resolutely contemporary, closely — almost obsessively — observed and firmly situated in the time and place we now inhabit. "The Invisible Bridge," by contrast, is 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 that was the Holocaust. Ms. Orringer’s long, crowded book is its own kind of forest, and not every tree needs to be here; her novel’s dramatic power might have been greatly enhanced by pruning. But Andras’s most enduring wish, it turns out, is to create a kind of family memorial. And Ms. Orringer, writing with both granddaughterly reverence and commanding authority, has done it for him. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book was a bit too long, but told the story from the unique perspective of Hungarian Jews during WWII. Even if a person in Europe during the war years never saw a battlefield or an "official" concentration camp, life was nothing short of a living hell.
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