The Lost Wife
the heart-breaking and unforgettable WW2 love story which will sweep you off your feet
$35.64
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2011
Summary
There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers.
‘Do you remember me now?’ he asked, trembling.
She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost.
‘Lenka, it’s me,’ he said. ‘Josef. Your husband.’
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry - but soon, like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444730203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444730207 |
| Author: | Alyson Richman |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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Tragedy and hope, love and loss, and the strength to endure are expressed through Richman’s graceful writing and powerful characters, many based on actual Holocaust victims and survivors.
This beautifully written, heart-rending, evocative novel explores the power of first love and the resilience of the human spirit. - Life & Living
The reader is taken back to an age of innocence in pre-war Prague as the young couple fall in love. In Richman’s fourth novel, the use of language is highly imaginative. - The Daily TelegraphThe Sophie’s Choice of this generation. - John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling authorIf you’re a fan of Paulina Simon’s The Bronze Horseman trilogy, this is right up your alley. Have the tissues near as the story of how they come to find one another again unfolds. - GRAZIAA lyrical tale of the ravages of war, lost and the human quest for redemption. - The Good Book GuideTragedy and hope, love and loss, and the strength to endure are expressed through Richman’s graceful writing and powerful characters, many based on actual Holocaust victims and survivors. - BooklistHeart-wrenching … a genuinely moving portrait. - Publisher’s WeeklyDaringly constructed … Richman writes with the clarity and softness of freshly-fallen snow. - Loring Mandel, Emmy winning playwrightAbout The Author
Alyson Richman
Alyson Richman is the author of The Mask Carver’s Son, Swedish Tango, and The Last Van Gogh. The daughter of a painter and an engineer, Richman’s novels combine a love of art and research, and have been published in more than ten languages. She lives in Long Island, New York with her husband and two children.
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