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Any book whose main characters are Jewish and living in Paris in 1937 for sure is going to be ominous. And yet, The Invisible Bridge, above all else, is a love story between Klara Morgenstern, a ballet instructor with a 16-year old daughter to whom she gave birth under mysterious circumstances as a teenager herself, and Andras Levi, a 19-year old architecture student. Both are Hungarian which makes their plight slightly more complex than it was for Jews in other countries. Anti-semitism grows year-by-year in Hungary, but as a German ally, Jews like Andras and his brothers are put to...