And After the Fire (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers Choice) - Hardcover

Belfer, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410493369 ISBN 13: 9781410493361

Verlag: THORNDIKE PR, 2016

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Belfer s prose is heartbreaking, as are her twin themes of love and betrayal, both romantic and familial. . . . She also has a gift for rejuvenating spirit of placeturn-of-the-20th-century Buffalo in City of Light and wartime New York here. --USA Today"

. . . Belfer is adept at writing historical fiction that sizzles. Sex, spies, murder, big money, family betrayals, doomed romance and exotic travel are smoothly braided into her main narrative about the wartime race to make large quantities of penicillin. --Washington Post Book World"

Lauren Belfer s panoramic new novel is a love story wrapped around a spy story with a pivotal medical breakthrough at its center. --O magazine"

A FIERCE RADIANCE shines with fascinating detail about a moment in American history we have mostly forgotten, when penicillin was new, miraculous, and in short supply. Belfer s powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes this book an especially compelling read. --Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank"

An ingenious first novel. . . . Alive with historical figures who mingle seamlessly with the fictional characters. . . . A huge, sprawling portrait of the United States at the turn of the last century. --New York Times Book Review, in praise of City of Light"

A remarkably suspenseful story, a literary thriller in the tradition of A.S. Byatt s Possession.--Kirkus Reviews"

Blending the gorgeousness of Bach and the horror of anti-Semitism over several centuries should make for unsettling contemplation, and readers of Belfer s . . . know that the author will be meticulous with both fact and fiction.--Library Journal"

Her most compelling [novel] yet. . . . Told with lyrical beauty . . . the novel is like the lost cantata itself, revealing our capacity for darkness, redeemed by the power of unconditional love. A dazzling, transformative novel. Highly recommended. --Historical Novel Society"

Reseña del editor

The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel inspired by historical events about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives.

In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him.

In America in 2010, Henry s niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript. She becomes determined to discover what it is and to return it to its rightful owner, a journey that will challenge her preconceptions about herself and her family s history and also offer her an opportunity to finally make peace with the past.

In Berlin, Germany, in 1783, amid the city s glittering salons where aristocrats and commoners, Christians and Jews, mingle freely despite simmering anti-Semitism, Sara Itzig Levy, a renowned musician, conceals the manuscript of an anti-Jewish cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, an unsettling gift to her from Bach s son, her teacher. This work and its disturbing message will haunt Sara and her family for generations to come.

Interweaving the stories of Susanna and Sara, and their families, And After the Fire traverses over two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century through the Holocaust and into today, seamlessly melding past and present, real and imagined. Lauren Belfer s deeply researched, evocative, and compelling narrative resonates with emotion and immediacy."

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• Verlag: THORNDIKE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410493369
• ISBN 13: 9781410493361
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 617