Review: The Invisible Bridge

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“He he a strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.”

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer was a book I definitely expected to like but I didn’t expect to devour it in just 2.5 days. Andras, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, sets out for Paris in 1937 to begin his studies. He settles into a happy life, making friends and meeting his future wife. As violence escalates in Europe Andras is forced to return to Hungary and try his best to keep himself and his family alive.

This was a very touching novel about life during WWII. I’ve read a lot of fiction set during the war but none that took place in Hungary. Not only did I learn a lot, but I felt attached to the fate of every character in this book, which is unusual for me. Even the secondary and tertiary characters were well rounded and their trials occasionally brought tears to me eyes. This was a long book, spanning 7 years, but the time flew by. My only small complaint was that it was sometimes hard to keep up with the timeline. At the beginning it wasn’t clear what year it was as Andras progressed through school.

The Invisible Bridge was a touching WWII novels that fans of books such as The Nightingale will love.

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