The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Author:Julie Orringer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Jews - Persecutions, Fiction, Literary, 1939-1945 - Europe, War & Military, Budapest (Hungary), Brothers, Jewish, Fiction - General, Jews - Hungary, Historical - General, American First Novelists, 1939-1945, Historical, Hungary, World War, Jews, General, Architecture students, American Historical Fiction, Paris (France), Love stories
ISBN: 9781400041169
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-15T08:59:29.698000+00:00

How could he have known it would be his last night as a resident of Paris? What

might he have done, how might he have spent those hours, if he'd known? Would he have

walked the streets all night to fix in his mind their unpredictable angles, their smells, their

variances of light? Would he have gone to Rosen's flat and shaken him from sleep, bid

him luck with his political struggles and with Shalhevet? Would he have gone to see Ben

Yakov at his bereft apartment one last time? Would he have gone to Polaner's, crouched

at his friend's side and told him what was true: that he loved him as much as he had ever

loved a friend, that he owed his life and happiness to him, that he had never felt such

exhilaration as when they'd worked together in the studio at night, making something

they believed to be daring and good? Would he have taken a last stroll by the SarahBernhardt, that sleeping grande dame, its red velvet seats flocked with dust, its corridors

empty and quiet, its dressing rooms still redolent of stage makeup? Would he have crept

into Forestier's studio to memorize his catalogue of disappearance and illusion? Would he

have gone back through the secret door he knew about in the Cimetiere du Montparnasse,

back to his studio at school, to run his hands across the familiar smooth surface of his

drawing table, the groove of the pencil rail, the mechanical pencils themselves, with their

crosshatched finger rests, their hard smooth lead, the satisfying click that signified the

end of one unit of work, the beginning of another? Would he have gone back to the rue

de Sevigne, his heart's first and last home in Paris, the place where he had first glimpsed

Klara Morgenstern with a blue vase in her hands? The place where they had first made

love, first argued, first spoken of their children?

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