THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE BY JULIE ORRINGER, VIKING, $32.95.
Hate, war and the machine of corrupt bureaucracy take Julie Orringer’s finely drawn characters and fling them cruelly into the hands of fate.
The Invisible Bridge begins in 1937, when sensitive student Andras Levi leaves Budapest to study architecture in Paris. His financial struggles and the difficulties that come with his burgeoning love affair with an older woman will soon be overwhelmed by the fact that he is Jewish. Andras, his lover and his two brothers are slowly sucked into the horror the Nazis are unleashing on Europe. They face the many cruelties of the time with courage and hope.
Orringer writes with a subtlety and breadth that makes the reader feel like a witness to history.
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