- Fiction, Jews, Brothers, Persecutions
Julie Orringer's astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater ("fiercely beautiful"--The New York Times; "unbelievably good"--Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family's struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it.Paris, 1937.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Julie Orringer
- First published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400041169
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