I have a number of reader-friends who would love to wrap themselves up in this kind of thing and take it home.and that's great.

Given that the first half of the book is a love story base on Love with a capital L, which itself is based on beauty, magical first glances, a forbidden element, and an ever mysterious woman, you'd better be content with a sentimentality meter reading that's over the moon. First, I think it depends on your personal tolerance for sentimentality. I have a theory about why some people love this book and others, myself included, struggled to slog through it. As he becomes involved with the letter’s recipient, his elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena, their younger brother leaves school for the stage-and Europe’s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying uncertainty.įrom the Hungarian village of Konyár to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the lonely chill of Andras’s garret to the enduring passion he discovers on the rue de Sévigné, from the despair of a Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labor camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the unforgettable story of brothers bound by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family’s struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. A grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war.

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer