The Lost Wife
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005LWRANW
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: Hodder
Pages no: 353
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Fiction,
Historical
I was so moved at times in this story of a Jewish couple separated by war and the Nazi occupation of Prague and the terrible choices they were forced to make. Especially so when Josef desperately searches for his missing wife and longs for what he has lost with her, contrasting with [spoiler] the em...
Historical fiction was 'my genre' for more than ten years, and particularly books set during WWII were the ones that I gravitated towards most often. There's something about the intensity and sadness of that era that makes for a riveting, emotional story, and The Lost Wife appealed to me so much bec...
Sad, but excellent.
I wish I hadn't read this one immediately after The Storyteller. I loved that one so much that this one couldn't compare so close together.
I adored this book. It is the story of a young married couple separated by the events of World War 2. He escapes their native Prague. ending up in America; she chooses to stay behind with her family. The chaos of the time causes each of them to think the other dead, and they subsequently remarry....
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