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A review by lostinfrance
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
3.0
This book was a bit of an albatross this past year- but I chose to read it....and then figured out it was 700+ pages...so back and forth between an ebook and a library copy. Not sure how this appeared on my to read list, but it has sat there for 8 years....bc I have a copy of it somewhere (probably in a shed).
This book tells the story of a Hungarian man- and his two brothers/family from before WWII- until....the end of their lives. The main character goes to school in Paris- and travels with barely any funding- and no knowledge of the language and thrives in his new city. Until Nazis and WWII go underway- he is Jewish and he finds himself having to stop his studies as an architect and return home....where he crosses paths with his other two brothers....and we go deep into the persecution of Jews in Hungary...and how he survived, just barely.
I learned from this book, but I can no longer read books about the Holocaust. I was obsessed and read so many in middle school and high school, but now- it is hard. The tales and went through, the hardship his family went through, the deaths of family and friends, the loss of education, the escape to avoid more pain- it was all a part of his family's story. I am glad I stuck with it. I am not sure it needed to be a tome, but I wanted to make sure there was some closure for Tibor's family (brothers/parents/wife/children...).
Read if you enjoy historical fiction that covers a couple generations.
This book tells the story of a Hungarian man- and his two brothers/family from before WWII- until....the end of their lives. The main character goes to school in Paris- and travels with barely any funding- and no knowledge of the language and thrives in his new city. Until Nazis and WWII go underway- he is Jewish and he finds himself having to stop his studies as an architect and return home....where he crosses paths with his other two brothers....and we go deep into the persecution of Jews in Hungary...and how he survived, just barely.
I learned from this book, but I can no longer read books about the Holocaust. I was obsessed and read so many in middle school and high school, but now- it is hard. The tales and went through, the hardship his family went through, the deaths of family and friends, the loss of education, the escape to avoid more pain- it was all a part of his family's story. I am glad I stuck with it. I am not sure it needed to be a tome, but I wanted to make sure there was some closure for Tibor's family (brothers/parents/wife/children...).
Read if you enjoy historical fiction that covers a couple generations.