Favorite Books of 2010
O's top picks take us from the trenches of World War II to forbidden love in Britain to an apocalyptic New York future.
O, The Oprah Magazine | June 18, 2010
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By Julie Orringer 624 pages; Knopf An old-fashioned romantic drama, Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge is as rich in historical detail as it is human in its cast of sympathetic characters. The novel begins in 1937 Budapest, where a discriminatory quota system has forced a 22-year-old Hungarian Jew named Andras Levi to seek his education abroad. He heads to architecture school in Paris, a place of modernist ferment, and finds an even fuller education in the arms of Klara Morgenstern, a 31-year-old ballet instructor and Hungarian emigre with a shadowy past... Read more |
