Against Klara's better judgment, love engulfs them, drowning out the rumblings of war for a time. And then he meets Klara, a captivating Hungarian ballet instructor nine years his senior with a painful past and a willful teenage daughter. He hones his talent for design, works backstage in a theater, and allies with other Jewish students in defiance of rising Nazi influence. Building vivid worlds in effortless phrases, she immerses us in 1930s Budapest just as a young Hungarian Jew, Andras Lévi, departs for the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. Orringer possesses a rare talent that makes a 600-page story-which, we know, must descend into war and genocide-feel rivetingly readable, even at its grimmest. Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010: Even if this weren't her first novel, Julie Orringer's Invisible Bridge would be a marvelous achievement.
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