Love and treasure
(Book)
Author
Published
London : Two Roads, 2014.
ISBN
9781444763096, 1444763091, 1444763105, 9781444763102, 9781444763119, 1444763113
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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River Forest Public Library - Stacks | FICTION WALDMAN | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Families -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Fiction.
Jewish property -- Hungary -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Novels.
Pendants (Jewelry) -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Hungary -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Fiction.
Jewish property -- Hungary -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Novels.
Pendants (Jewelry) -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Hungary -- Fiction.
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Published
London : Two Roads, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781444763096, 1444763091, 1444763105, 9781444763102, 9781444763119, 1444763113
Notes
Description
A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siecle Budapest - who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three fierce women, each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history of our times. And at the centre of Love and Treasure, nested like a photograph hidden in a locket, a mystery: where does the worth of a people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift, when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more? In an intricately constructed narrative that is by turns funny and tragic, thrilling and harrowing, with all the expertise and narrative drive that readers have come to expect from her work, Waldman traces the unlikely journey, from 1914 Budapest to post-war Salzburg to present-day New York, of the peacock pendant whose significance changes - token of friendship, love-offering, unlucky talisman with the changes of fortune undergone by her characters as they find themselves caught up in the ebb and flow of modern European history.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Waldman, A. (2014). Love and treasure . Two Roads.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waldman, Ayelet. 2014. Love and Treasure. Two Roads.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waldman, Ayelet. Love and Treasure Two Roads, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Waldman, Ayelet. Love and Treasure Two Roads, 2014.
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