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Laddar... The Invisible Bridge (urspr publ 2010; utgåvan 2010)av Julie Orringer
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 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. Julie Orringer has written a compelling story about two Hungarian Jewish families: one wealthy and one poor, whose lives become intertwined when two of them fall in love in late 1930's Paris despite a significant gap in age. Andras Levi is lucky enough to win a scholarship to study architecture in Paris, but funding disappears causing him to seek work from a fellow Hungarian in the theater. The female lead sets him up with the daughter of a friend, who is beastly, but Andras falls in love with the mother, Claire Morgenstern (a/k/a Klara Hasz), who has fled her native land. They are lots of secrets to be revealed in the 600 pages, and they return to Hungary when Andras' visa is revoked. Andras is then conscripted while the Jewish world in Europe is crumbling under the Third Reich. This reminded me a little of Follett's Fall of Giants, but it is focused on fewer people and character development, rather than explaining world events.
"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. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Oförglömlig kärlekssaga i Tolstojs anda Paris 1937. Andras Lévi, en ung arkitektstudent, anländer från Budapest med ett stipendium, en resväska och ett mystiskt brev som han har lovat att leverera till en person på rue de Sévigné. Brevets mottagare är den unga änkan och balettskoleläraren Klara som Andras blir handlöst förälskad i. Deras förhållande blir passionerat men komplicerat. Hon är åtta år äldre än han och bär på en mörk hemlighet. När hon slutligen inviger Andras i den tar hans liv en ny vändning. Samtidigt rycker kriget i Europa allt närmare och då det bryter ut drabbas inte bara Andras och Klara, utan även hans bröder och hela hans ungerska familj. När Andras kämpar för sin överlevnad i de nazistiska arbetslägren, känns åren i Paris som en avlägsen dröm. Samtidigt är tankarna på Klara det enda som håller honom vid liv. Han minns den magiska dagen då de åkte skridskor i Bois de Boulogne, deras kärleksmöten i hans iskalla vindsvåning och alla de gånger han i smyg beundrade hennes dansövningar. Hoppet om att en gång få återse henne är det enda han har kvar i en värld av ofattbar ondska. Den osynliga bron handlar om en kärlek som sätts på hårda prov, om en judisk familj som kämpar för att inte utplånas och om tre bröder som för alltid är bundna till varandra. Julie Orringer har skrivit en roman med en våldsam emotionell kraft. Det finns många romaner om andra världskrigets fasor, men få så drabbande som denna. "... en storslagen, rik och fängslande berättelse, fullständigt övertygande. Vacker och sorglig."Metro [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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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. ( )