Part One: The Street of Schools -- A Letter -- The Western Europe Express -- The Quartier Latin -- Ecole Speciale -- Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt -- Work -- A Luncheon -- Gare D'Orsay -- Bois de Vincennes -- Rue de Sevigne -- Winter Holiday -- Part Two: Broken Glass -- What Happened at the Studio -- Visitor -- A Haircut -- In the Tuileries -- The Stone Cottage -- Synagogue de la Victoire -- Café Bedouin -- An Alley -- A Dead Man -- Part Three: Departures and Arrivals -- A Dinner Party -- Signorina di Sabato -- Sportsclub Saint-Germain -- The S.S. Ile De France -- The Hungarian Consulate -- Part Four: The Invisible Bridge -- Subcarpathia -- The Snow Goose -- Furlough -- Banhida Camp -- Barna and the General -- Tamas Levi -- Szentendre Yard -- Passage to the East -- Part Five: By Fire -- Turka -- The Tatars in Hungary -- A Fire in the Snow -- An Escape -- Occupation -- Farewell -- Nightmare -- The Dead -- A Name
Summary
An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war
Analysis
Love stories
Notes
"A Borzoi book."
Shortlisted for 2011 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction