• The Fortunate Ones

  • A Novel
  • De: Ellen Umansky
  • Narrado por: Karen White
  • Duración: 12 h y 34 m
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (31 calificaciones)

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De: Ellen Umansky
Narrado por: Karen White
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One very special work of art - a Chaim Soutine painting - will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.

It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter of war darkens Europe, Rose Zimmer's parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport and send her to live with strangers in England.

Six years later, the war finally over, a grief-stricken Rose attempts to build a life for herself. Alone in London, devastated, she cannot help but try to search out one piece of her childhood: the Chaim Soutine painting her mother had cherished.

Many years later the painting finds its way to America. In modern-day Los Angeles, Lizzie Goldstein has returned home for her father's funeral. Newly single and unsure of her path, she also carries a burden of guilt that cannot be displaced. Years ago, as a teenager, Lizzie threw a party at her father's house with unexpected but far-reaching consequences. The Soutine painting that she loved and that had provided lasting comfort to her after her own mother had died was stolen and has never been recovered. This painting will bring Lizzie and Rose together and ignite an unexpected friendship, eventually revealing long-held secrets that hold painful truths.

Spanning decades and unfolding in crystalline, atmospheric prose, The Fortunate Ones is a haunting story of longing, devastation, and forgiveness and a deep examination of the bonds and desires that map our private histories.

©2017 Ellen Umansky (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

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Lovely novel dealing with Nazi-looted art

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I admit I find most stories centered around Nazi-looted art fascinating. Umansky weaves the loss of art, childhood, family, and humanity in a delicate and lovely way while questioning what it means to be Jewish then, in wartorn Europe and now, in modern America. I recommend it for anyone with a long, solo ride ahead of them.

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it was meh...

kind of boring. no real events just two timelines. i thought i would be historical fiction and i guess it KIND OF is....but only like 10%

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