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From the Firm
Julie Orringer’s surprising first book, eagerly expected since the business of her heralded best-selling short-story publication, How to Breathe Underwater, is a love story set against the scenery of Budapest and Paris, an heroic tale of brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s assay against the forces that threaten to decimate it.
Paris, 1937. Andras, a Hungarian-Jewish structure, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a esoteric letter he has promised to bear it to C. Morgenstern on the rue. As he goes into a complicated relationship with the letter’s recipient, he becomes owner of something private to a underground record that will change the course of his own life. Meantime, as his senior brother takes up medical studies in Modena and their younger brother leaves for the period, Europe’s development tragedy sends a piece of their lives into terrifying dubiousness. At the end of Andras’s second summer in Paris, all of Europe erupts in a cataclysm of war.
From the Hungarian town to the impressive opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the unsocial cold of Andras’s room on the rue to the colorful and imperishable connection he discovers on the rue, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labor camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a love proved by hardship, of brothers whose bonds cannot be humbled, of a family splintered and remade in account’s darkest distance, and of the parlous force of art in a time of war.
Expertly crafted, magnificently codified, emotionally unforgettable, and unachievable to put consume, The Invisible Bridge resoundingly confirms Julie Orringer’s point as one of today’s most alive and high young literate talents.