FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2011
Copyright © 2010 by Julie Orringer
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2010.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material may be found on this page.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Orringer, Julie
The invisible bridge / Julie Orringer.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Architecture students—Fiction. 2. Jews—Hungary—Fiction. 3. Brothers—
Fiction. 4. Jews—Persecutions—Fiction. 5. World War,
1939–1945—Europe—Fiction. 6. Budapest (Hungary)—Fiction. 7. Paris
(France)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3615.R59168 2010
813′.6—dc22 2009046498
eISBN: 978-0-307-59371-9
Cover photograph © Chain Bridge, Budapest, after bombing, World War II/Hungarian National Museum Historical Photographic Collection.
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