Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 602 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Part One: The Street of Schools -- A Letter -- The Western Europe Express -- The Quartier Latin -- Ecole Speciale -- Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt -- Work -- A Luncheon -- Gare D'Orsay -- Bois de Vincennes -- Rue de Sevigne -- Winter Holiday -- Part Two: Broken Glass -- What Happened at the Studio -- Visitor -- A Haircut -- In the Tuileries -- The Stone Cottage -- Synagogue de la Victoire -- Café Bedouin -- An Alley -- A Dead Man -- Part Three: Departures and Arrivals -- A Dinner Party -- Signorina di Sabato -- Sportsclub Saint-Germain -- The S.S. Ile De France -- The Hungarian Consulate -- Part Four: The Invisible Bridge -- Subcarpathia -- The Snow Goose -- Furlough -- Banhida Camp -- Barna and the General -- Tamas Levi -- Szentendre Yard -- Passage to the East -- Part Five: By Fire -- Turka -- The Tatars in Hungary -- A Fire in the Snow -- An Escape -- Occupation -- Farewell -- Nightmare -- The Dead -- A Name |
Summary |
An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war. |
Subject |
Architecture students -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Hungary -- Fiction.
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Brothers -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Fiction.
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Budapest (Hungary) -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Jewish fiction.
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ISBN |
9781400041169 hardcover |
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1400041163 |
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