LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary and secret life, just as Europe's unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty.

From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster and of a family, threatened with annihilation, bound by love and history.

'Phenomenal, enthralling ... You don't so much read it as live it' Simon Schama, Financial Times

'To bring an entire lost world - its sights, its smells, its heartaches, raptures and terrors - to vivid life between the covers of a novel is an accomplishment; to invest that world, and everyone who inhabits it, with a soul, as Julie Orringer does in The Invisible Bridge, takes something more like genius' Michael Chabon

Longlistedfor the2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.


About the Author
Julie Orringer was born in Florida in 1973. She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, and her collection of stories How to Breathe Underwater was a New York Times Notable Book.

Reviews
A big, generously involving story, utterly convincing in its texture and detail. Beautiful and sad * Metro *
Compelling, passionate, tragic * Marie Claire *
Powerful and affecting, crowded with the details of lives led and miseries inflicted * Sunday Times *
There are characters whose fate we care about, and a profoundly moving love story threaded between the tenacity of family and the monstrous grind of war. One that cries for you to linger over page by enthralling page -- Simon Schama * Financial Times *
Gripping, moving * TLS *
Stunning, gracefully written, altogether remarkable * LA Times *
A sweeping epic, a good old-fashioned page-turner * Daily Mail *



Book Information
ISBN 9780141015095
Author Julie Orringer
Format Paperback
Page Count 624
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 426g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm