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Life Lines

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Martin Singer, en rik och inflytelserik amerikan - son till en ansedd domare, sonson till en rysk invandrare - är gift med Jenny, en dynamisk och ytterst självständig kvinna. In i deras behagliga och ombonade liv kommer plötsligt en bön om hjälp, ett förtvivlat brev från en man i Sovjetunionen som säger sig vara deras kusin, Jurij Ivanovitj Karpejko. Jurij och hans familj har hittills lyckats överleva för att de dolde sitt judiska ursprung för nazistockupanterna och efter kriget förnekade det för sina kommunistiska kollegier. Men nu har det politiska klimatet på nytt förändrats, gammal rysk antisemitism har återkommit.

526 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

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June 28, 2017
Fascinating story of the permanent, although unseen, connections between "strangers " of a family that feel responsibility to one another in spite of changed cultures and great distances that set them apart. Every Jew should read this book.
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September 26, 2018
Life Lines by Joseph Viertel, is an epic historical fiction starting in Minsk in the 1900s and ends up in the 1980’s. Yuri must find a way to get to New York and out behind the very anti-Semitic version of the Russian iron curtain. He contacts a distant cousin in New York who contacts another relative from Israel. This is a long and intriguing book about romance, action and immigration issues.
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April 3, 2014
Read this book years ago and could not find more of the same author. A very beautiful book that you cannot put down and a very good story about a family's life.
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July 1, 2016
Enthralling.
A few incongruities towards the end but overall an historical fiction that felt like it could have been a biography. One of my favourite types of book.
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