Bibliograph

The train to Warsaw, a novel, Gwen Edelman

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The train to Warsaw, a novel, Gwen Edelman

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The train to Warsaw

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gwen Edelman

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Jascha and Lilka separately fled from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they live in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales about his war adventures. One day, forty years after the war, Jascha receives a letter inviting him to give a reading in Warsaw. He tells Lilka that nothing remains of the city they knew and that wild horses couldn't drag him back. Nostalgic for the city of her childhood, Lilka prevails; together, traveling by train through a frozen December landscape, they return to the city of their past. When they unwittingly find themselves back in what was once the ghetto, they will discover that they still have secrets between them. A riveting story of the nature of desire and the cost of survival, The Train to Warsaw is a haunting and unforgettable portrait of a man and a woman who cannot escape their past

Target audience

adult

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