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The Invisible Bridge is a love story, a story of family, sacrifice and survival. Set in Paris and Budapest in the years before and during World War II, Andras Levi is a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student on scholarship in Paris. With Hitler’s rise to power, the political landscape rapidly changes in Europe and soon Levi is forced to return to Hungary with his new wife. As the possibility of leaving Hungary becomes more remote, Andras and his family face the consequences of Hitler’s pact with
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We older folk tend to feel that we really don't want to read another book about the holocaust. We were of an age to just begin to understand what those photographs in the magazines that came out in the summer of 1945.....and from then until now we've got those pictures lodged in our memory. We remember then as young adults being in community gatherings and being shocked to see some of the people with numbers inked on their forearms. We've never forgotten, and won't. But I admit that when our boo
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Around the World in 52 books: Hungary
With riveting characters and settings so real I felt transported around the world, this book became my life during the week I read it. Vivid with detail and emotion, I feel like I experienced the war myself. What an unforgettable story.
With riveting characters and settings so real I felt transported around the world, this book became my life during the week I read it. Vivid with detail and emotion, I feel like I experienced the war myself. What an unforgettable story.
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