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The Lost Wife

Alyson Richman

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 44670 Users | 4673 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lost Wife
Author	:	Alyson Richman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2011 by Berkley Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. War. World War II. Holocaust

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There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. 'Lenka, it's me,' he said. 'Josef. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry - but soon, like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. In America Josef becomes a successful obstetrician and raises a family, though he never forgets the wife he thinks died in the camps. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terez??n - and later in Auschwitz - Lenka has survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she believes she will never see again. Now, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York brings Lenka and Josef back together. From the comfort of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the endurance of first love, the resilience of the human spirit and our capacity to remember.

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Original Title:	The Lost Wife
ISBN:	042524413X (ISBN13: 9780425244135)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lenka, Jozef
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) Prague (Praha)(Czech Republic)

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Great opening: widower grandfather of the groom meets widowed grandmother and realizes it is his first wife, with both having thought the other perished in WWII. A love story. Interestingly, her story in Terezin and Auschwitz is told chronologically while his is told mostly in reverse order. Well written, but after many recollections about the strength of their love for each other, she barely recognizes him and we get no insight after the realization.

Alyson Richman says in her Note that she wanted to tell the story of an artist surviving the Holocaust. Then she heard of a story in which an old couple that had married before WWII who lost each other, then again found the other one at their grand childrens' wedding. Thus began the stories of Lenka and Josef. The writing is exquisite, poetic at times. I smiled as they got married, angry when Lenka stayed in Czechoslovakia, and cried in different parts of both their stories. The ending was so

Find the enhanced version of this and other reviews at: http://flashlightcommentary.blogspot....I flagged this book as 'to read' in October 2011. I skimmed the blurb at that time and added it to my list based on the time frame alone. World War II is sort of my thing after all. It wasn't until I noticed the book at the library that I actually absorbed the basic premise of the story and to be honest, my first thought was 'uh-oh.' I knew the minute I picked it up that it would be coming home with

Let me say first and foremost that I do not read love stories, I loathe books such as those by Nicholas Sparks and Nora Roberts, I have a specially designed crucifix to guard me against the genre of Mills and Boon. And yet... paradoxically, I loved this novel and it is, essentially, a love story, a story of first love, lost love, remembered love. This novel does not abound with all the hearts and flowers of the aforementioned publishers. And, it has quietly, stealthily crept up on me in the last

Loved this book. Chapter one sucks you in because you know there is something to look forward to. I have to be honest, I almost gave up in the beginning. It is such a sad, heart wrenching subject that it was almost too much to bare. I read some reviews and everyone raved about it so I stuck with it. It is a beautifully written story. I felt so connected to each character. That you can't put it down because you know from the beginning that there is something to hold on to. My only critique is

I chose this book wrongly, it's not for me. I was interested in the Jewish ghetto of Terezin (Czechoslovakia), which I had never heard of, where some Jews painted and drew (the main female character studied arts for 2 years before World War II and was Jewish). But this book deals more with the insta-love story between artist Lenka and the obstetrician Josef. I don't like insta-love or romantic stories too much; I thought there would be a major highlight for historical fiction. DNF page 214.

Of the many books with a holocaust theme I have read, this is the first that has centered around the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp, located outside Prague. The basis of the book is, of course, a romance story, but the heart of the book takes place in Terezin where the Nazi's established a prison camp that was less of a death camp and more of an authentic work camp. Certainly the conditions were every bit as grueling and no less horrifying as Auschwitz and Birkenwald, but there were