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Dazzling…. A story simultaneously epic and intimate.
Entertainment Weekly on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer avoids bathos and has a gift for re-creating distant times and places: a Paris suffused with the scent of paprikas and the sounds of American jazz, the camraderies and cruelties of the work camps. The ticking clock of history keeps it urgent and moving forward, and the result is, against all odds, a Holocaust page-turner. Buy it.
New York magazine on The Invisible Bridge
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Beautiful, breathtaking, and vital.
NPR, Books We Like on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer’s stunning first novel far exceeds the expectations generated by her much-lauded debut collection, How to Breathe Underwater. . . . Orringer’s triumphant novel is as much a lucid reminder of a time not so far away as it is a luminous story about the redemptive power of love.
Publishers Weekly (starred review, pick of the week) on The Invisible Bridge
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The word ‘epic’ seems inadequate to describe Julie Orringer’s phenomenal first novel, The Invisible Bridge. You don’t so much read it as live it…. Profoundly moving…. This is one that cries for you to linger over it, page by enthralling page.
Financial Times on The Invisible Bridge
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A hugely ambitious undertaking, but [Orringer] has every detail under control, from the architectural currents in Europe in the 1930s to the day-to-day struggle to survive…Completely absorbing…an astonishing achievement.
Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist (starred review) on The Invisible Bridge
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The Invisible Bridge is dense with a master’s intelligence…. The stuff of classic novels.
Kansas City Star on The Invisible Bridge
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With The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer has built a large novel in the grand old style, and out of that rubble made something new and beautiful.
The Onion’s A. V. Club on The Invisible Bridge
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Wry, poignant. . . . Such clear-eyed precision makes Orringer’s debut as heartbreaking as it is clever.
Entertainment Weekly on How to Breathe Underwater
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Engrossing…. The Invisible Bridge follows Hungarian Architecture student Andras Lévi and his older lover, Klara Morgenstern, through some of the most fraught and consequential years of 20th-century history, but Orringer never seems out of her depth.
Time Out New York on The Invisible Bridge
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Profound love, familial bonds and the deepest of human loyalties play out against the backdrop of unimaginable cruelty…. A stunning first novel.
Los Angeles Times on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer’s great achievement here is to give us the Holocaust anew, to remind us of the scale of what was lost and to cherish what survived.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer on The Invisible Bridge
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Truly breathtaking…. A sensual feast.
San Francisco Chronicle on The Invisible Bridge
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A Tolstoy-esque novel of the Holocaust, one that tracks the passage of quotidian life and the flutter of the human heart against the implacable roll of history. . . . The love story that unfolds in Orringer’s pages is as romantic as Doctor Zhivago and the seamless, edifying integration of truckloads of historical and topical research.
Newsday on The Invisible Bridge
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The Invisible Bridge is a tale of war-torn lovers, family and survival of the luckiest rather than the fittest…. Wonderfully evoked.
Chicago Tribune on The Invisible Bridge