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Exile Music
Taschenbuch von Jennifer Steil
Sprache: Englisch

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Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia

As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds, where they can escape the growing tensions around them.

But in 1938, Orly's peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first, and soon Orly, her father, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains, Orly's mother grows even more distant, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass, the war ends, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe-and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese-too strong to ignore?

Story Locale: Vienna, Austria and La Paz, Bolivia
Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia

As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how her Jewish heritage will define her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Anneliese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds, where they can escape the growing tensions around them.

But in 1938, Orly's peaceful life is shattered when the Germans arrive. Her older brother flees Vienna first, and soon Orly, her father, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small community grows, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood, and by the family and friends they left behind. While Orly and her father find their footing in the mountains, Orly's mother grows even more distant, harboring a secret that could put their family at risk again. Years pass, the war ends, and Orly must decide: Is the love and adventure she has found in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe-and the piece of her heart she left with Anneliese-too strong to ignore?

Story Locale: Vienna, Austria and La Paz, Bolivia
Über den Autor
Jennifer Steil is the author of two previous books, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, a memoir of her experience as a journalist in Yemen, and The Ambassador's Wife, a novel about a hostage crisis that was also inspired by Steil's own experience. She currently lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with her husband and daughter.
Zusammenfassung
UNTOLD SLICE OF WWII HISTORY: Inspired by true events, this an absorbing look at a community of nearly 10,000 Austrian Jews-mostly artists and musicians-who fled to La Paz, Bolivia in the year leading up to WWII. Like the many other successful books in this category, this upmarket novel brings to life families who lost everything because of their faith but transports them to a place we haven't seen in fiction before, giving a fresh take to a perennially appealing story of resilience.

AUTHOR'S UNUSUAL CONNECTION TO THE SETTING: As the wife of the European Union ambassador to Bolivia, Steil spent four years in La Paz from 2012 to 2016, raising her daughter, researching this piece of history, and interviewing survivors. The result is a novel rich in history and with an unusual and vividly depicted setting that grapples with what it's like to be an outsider, and to find the people who were once your enemy become your neighbors-and the only neighbors who share your culture and native tongue.

TV TIE-IN FOR AUTHOR ON THE HORIZON: Steil's previous novel, The Ambassador's Wife (Doubleday, 2015), about a hostage crisis inspired by her own experience was optioned for television by the Mark Gordon Company with Anne Hathaway attached to star.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525561835
ISBN-10: 0525561838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steil, Jennifer
Hersteller: Penguin Random House Sea
Maße: 206 x 138 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Steil
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
preigu-id: 119651662
Über den Autor
Jennifer Steil is the author of two previous books, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, a memoir of her experience as a journalist in Yemen, and The Ambassador's Wife, a novel about a hostage crisis that was also inspired by Steil's own experience. She currently lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with her husband and daughter.
Zusammenfassung
UNTOLD SLICE OF WWII HISTORY: Inspired by true events, this an absorbing look at a community of nearly 10,000 Austrian Jews-mostly artists and musicians-who fled to La Paz, Bolivia in the year leading up to WWII. Like the many other successful books in this category, this upmarket novel brings to life families who lost everything because of their faith but transports them to a place we haven't seen in fiction before, giving a fresh take to a perennially appealing story of resilience.

AUTHOR'S UNUSUAL CONNECTION TO THE SETTING: As the wife of the European Union ambassador to Bolivia, Steil spent four years in La Paz from 2012 to 2016, raising her daughter, researching this piece of history, and interviewing survivors. The result is a novel rich in history and with an unusual and vividly depicted setting that grapples with what it's like to be an outsider, and to find the people who were once your enemy become your neighbors-and the only neighbors who share your culture and native tongue.

TV TIE-IN FOR AUTHOR ON THE HORIZON: Steil's previous novel, The Ambassador's Wife (Doubleday, 2015), about a hostage crisis inspired by her own experience was optioned for television by the Mark Gordon Company with Anne Hathaway attached to star.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525561835
ISBN-10: 0525561838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steil, Jennifer
Hersteller: Penguin Random House Sea
Maße: 206 x 138 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Jennifer Steil
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
preigu-id: 119651662
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