Love and Treasure

Love and Treasure

A spellbinding new novel ofÂ contraband masterpieces,Â tragic love,Â and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldmanâ€™s Love and Treasure weaves aÂ taleÂ around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War.

In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles ofÂ fine gold watches; mountains ofÂ fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and ShabbatÂ candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasureâ€”a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown womanâ€”a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life.

A story of brilliantly drawn charactersâ€”aÂ suaveÂ and shadyÂ art historian, a delusive and infatuated Freudian, a family ofÂ singing circus dwarfs fallen into the clutches of Josef Mengele, and desperate lovers facing choices that will tear them apartâ€”Love and Treasure is Ayelet Waldmanâ€™s finest novel to date: a sad, funny, richly detailed work that poses hard questions about the value of precious things in a time when life itself has no value, and about the slenderest of chains that can bind us to the griefs and passions of the past.Â

This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Country USA
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-01
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780385533553

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-01
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9780385533553

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