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Andras’s Europe is fully realized: its cornices and cobblestones, its frigid winters and chance meetings in cafés.
Bookforum on The Invisible Bridge
News: The Invisible Bridge
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At the risk of oversimplifying things, this novel shows how Michael Chabon would write if he grew up a ballet-dancing girl instead of a comic-book-loving boy.
The Plain Dealer on The Invisible Bridge
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A work of impressive scope and powerful depth.
BookPage on The Invisible Bridge
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Orringer makes us care so deeply about the people of her all-too-real fictional world. For the time it takes to read this fine novel, and for a long time afterward, it becomes our world too.
The New York Times Book Review on The Invisible Bridge
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In a field as crowded with artistic representations as the Holocaust, it’s easy to assume that there is nothing new to say. Julie Orringer reminds us that there always is, so long as there are individual stories to tell…. Brilliant…. As in her modern stories, here Orringer covers the darkest matters with a tender authority while imbuing her characters with the subtle, endless dimensions of love and suffering…. Gripping, fresh, and worth remembering… this novel will endure.
Forward magazine on The Invisible Bridge
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One of the best books of the year.
Junot Diaz on The Invisible Bridge
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Has much to say about war, and how it affects individuals indiscriminately, changing their dreams.
Dallas Morning News on The Invisible Bridge
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Powerful…. So mesmerizing that in spite of the book’s heft, its ending comes too soon.
Miami Herald on The Invisible Bridge
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What begins as a jewel-box romance soon breaks open into a harrowing saga of war. Orringer, drawing upon assiduous research into Hungarian history (and her own), conveys a piercing sense of what it means to be fated by one’s blood, as well as a rich understanding ot the capricious nature of survival.
Vogue on The Invisible Bridge
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Heartbreaking—and inspiring.
Chicago Sun-Times on The Invisible Bridge
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The sheer joy of storytelling fills each moment of Orringer’s novel. Like Tolstoy and Eliot’s work, it transports us completely into its world—that of young Andras, his friends, family and loves—and a landscape of war and redemption. Thrilling, tender, and terrifying; a glorious reminder of how books can change our lives. It is the novel of the year.
Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of A Marriage on The Invisible Bridge
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Brilliant…. Remarkably accomplished.
The Washington Post Book World on The Invisible Bridge
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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, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on The Invisible Bridge
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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