by Thomas Ország-Land (March 2011)


The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Knopf, 2010, 602pp., $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4116-9 (1-4000-4116-3)
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Viking (Penguin), 2010, 624pp., £14.99
ISBN: 978-0-670-91458-6

A 30-SOMETHING Brooklyn author has written a brave and beautiful book about the Holocaust comparable, without exaggeration, to the greatest novels of all literature. Readers must read it, teachers must teach it, and those among us who have survived the horror that it describes must be grateful to its author for making our experience comprehensible for the 21st century.  more>>>