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1956: Amara, a young Italian journalist, is sent to report on the growing political divide between East and West in post-war central Europe. She also has a more personal mission: to find out what happened to Emanuele, her soul mate from before the war when both were children in Florence. Emanuele and his family were Jews transported by the Nazis from wartime Vienna, but not before he had sent Amara a long series of letters she still carries with her. Her quest now takes her on long train journeys. She visits the holocaust museum at Auschwitz, and Budapest, where she is caught up in the tumultuous events of the October rising against the Soviet Union. Amara is helped by chance travel companions, notably Hans, part Austrian and half-Jewish, who works as a surrogate father at weddings for brides orphaned in the war, and Hovath, an elderly Hungarian captured by the Russians after forced service with the German army outside Stalingrad in 1942. Along the way she meets many other survivors, each with their own story to tell, and ponders the troubled existence of her own parents in the oppressive world of Mussolini's Italy. But did Emanuele survive the war or, like so many other Viennese Jews, did he die in Auschwitz or a ghetto in Poland?
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Novelist, poet and playwright, Dacia Maraini has been awarded Italy's top two literary prizes, the Premio Strega and the Premio Campiello. Her fiction, which has been published in 22 countries, includes Woman at War, Isolina, Voices and the worldwide best-seller The Silent Duchess. Darcia Maraini lives in Rome. Author's Website: http://www.dacia-maraini.it
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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The year is 1956. Amari Sironi, an Italian journalist is commissioned to write a series of articles on the post war policital divide in central Europe. She combines this mission with a search for her childhood sweetheart, Emanuele, who with his Jewish parents, was transported by the Nazi regime to Lodz. Amari has an inner belief that Emanuele has survived. Before the family were forced from their home, Emanule wrote letters to Amari, which she carries everywhere with her. She also has an exercise book full of unsent letters which Emanuele had hidden, and which was forwarded to her after the end of the war.
She is aided in her search by Hans, a half Jewish Austrian and Hovath, a kindly librarian whom she has met on her travels and with whom she develops a very close bond. The people they meet in their search all have their own poignant stories to tell, each of which would warrant a story theirself.
But this is not just a Holocaust story. At the heart of this book there is a gripping page turning plot but much more besides.
Dacia Maraini, the author, herself spent three years in a concentration camp at the age of seven because her aristocratic parents would not co-operate with the the facist regime. This depth of understanding of time and place shine through her writing.
This is a book I heartily recommend.
She is aided in her search by Hans, a half Jewish Austrian and Hovath, a kindly librarian whom she has met on her travels and with whom she develops a very close bond. The people they meet in their search all have their own poignant stories to tell, each of which would warrant a story theirself.
But this is not just a Holocaust story. At the heart of this book there is a gripping page turning plot but much more besides.
Dacia Maraini, the author, herself spent three years in a concentration camp at the age of seven because her aristocratic parents would not co-operate with the the facist regime. This depth of understanding of time and place shine through her writing.
This is a book I heartily recommend.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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The Reviewer, Alice, has detailed the story and tells us that the Italian author was her self in a concentration camp as a child. The English translation by Silvester Mazzarella is first class. If you have read Winter in Madrid, Shadow of the Wind and wanted more stories with this flavour, Train to Budapest would satisfy your need. If you were born after WW11 the book is both a history lesson and a remarkable story of cruelty and survival. I urge you to read it and to learn from the experience.
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A riveting work of literature, very much recommended for world fiction collections
13 Aug 2011
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The search for love and truth are sometimes two in the same. "Train to Budapest" follows Amara, a young Italian journalist who is searching for her lost lover from before the war, and searching for the understanding of the great divide of Europe between the East and West. Her lover, Emanuele, may have been lost to the Nazi's atrocities, is searched among it all, with Amara wanting truth, be it survival or death, and if death, how. "Train to Budapest" is a riveting work of literature, very much recommended for world fiction collections.
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