The Invisible Bridge
  • Published: 31 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141015095
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Invisible Bridge

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29 Mar 2011
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31 Mar 2011
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'Phenomenal, enthralling ... You don't so much read it as live it' Simon Schama, Financial Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION

Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary and secret life, just as Europe's unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty.

From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster and of a family, threatened with annihilation, bound by love and history.
  • Published: 31 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141015095
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Julie Orringer

Julie Orringer was born in 1973 and grew up in New Orleans and Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Cornell University. Her stories have appeared in several publications including The Paris Review, The Yale Review and Best New American Voices. Julie Orringer lives in San Francisco where she is currently at work on a novel. How to Breathe Underwater is her first book.

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Praise for The Invisible Bridge

A big, generously involving story, utterly convincing in its texture and detail. Beautiful and sad

Metro

Compelling, passionate, tragic

Marie Claire

Powerful and affecting, crowded with the details of lives led and miseries inflicted

Sunday Times

There are characters whose fate we care about, and a profoundly moving love story threaded between the tenacity of family and the monstrous grind of war. One that cries for you to linger over page by enthralling page

Simon Schama, Financial Times

Gripping, moving

TLS

Stunning, gracefully written, altogether remarkable

LA Times

A sweeping epic, a good old-fashioned page-turner

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