Gwen Edelman
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Jascha and Lilka escape separately 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; she is nostalgic for the city of her childhood. Traveling by train through a frozen...