by Julie Orringer · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307949714
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«The Flight Portfolio» is the historical fiction novel by Julie Orringer, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (576 pages).
Marseille, 1940. Varian Fry, an American journalist and editor, forms the Emergency Rescue Committee with a group of New Yorkers to help artists and writers flee the Nazis. Amid false passports, visas, and routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, Fry must decide whom to save while undergoing a personal transformation.
The novel was originally published in 2019, was nominated for the American Library in Paris award, and has inspired the Netflix series «Transatlantic».
Recommended for book clubs and readers of historical fiction set during World War II.
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.
