The year is 1937, far enough along in the proceedings that neither should be surprised to learn that bad things are about to happen yet both are so resolutely set on their paths that, it seems, the outside world does not always figure. As the narrative opens, Andras is bound for Paris to study architecture, Tibor for Italy to study medicine. The brothers Andras and Tibor Levi, Hungarian Jews, are models of aspiration. A long, richly detailed debut novel from prizewinning short-story writer Orringer ( How to Breathe Underwater, 2003), unfolding from a little-explored area of the Holocaust.
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