by Julie Orringer · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757843291
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«Le pont invisible» is the historical novel by Julie Orringer, published by POINTS in paperback (912 pages, in French).
In interwar Paris, young Hungarian architect András Lévi discovers the turbulent life of the Jewish diaspora while studying on a scholarship. There he meets Klára, an enigmatic dance teacher, and a love story blossoms between them that tries to stay aloof from growing antisemitism. Forced to return to Budapest, András ends up sent to a labor camp while Klára tries to flee to Palestine; amid the chaos of war, the lovers fight to find each other again.
Novel translated from English (USA) by Josée Kamoun. Part of the Les Grands Romans collection from POINTS. Originally published in 2010 under the title «The Invisible Bridge».
Recommended for readers interested in historical fiction, World War II and stories of exile with a romantic backdrop.
Julie Orringer is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic.
