![]() From the comfort of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the endurance of first love, the resilience of the human spirit and our capacity to remember. Now, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York brings Lenka and Josef back together. ![]() But in the Nazi ghetto of Terez?n - and later in Auschwitz - Lenka has survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she believes she will never see again. In America Josef becomes a successful obstetrician and raises a family, though he never forgets the wife he thinks died in the camps. ![]() ![]() a welcome new display of her masterful approach to the undercurrent of violence that she believes runs beneath all human behavior. TIME, Here Are the 14 New Books You Should Read in April Moore graces us with another novel this spring. They marry - but soon, like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. The Lost Wife illustrates the devastating outcomes of oppression. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. Alyson Richman is the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds, The Velvet Hours, The Garden of Letters, The Lost Wife, The Last Van Gogh, The Rhythm of Memory, and The Mask. ![]() 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. Her dreadful backstory is recounted early on in the novel: at 15, along with her mother no source of comfort she was sent to Dexter Asylum for the insane and indigent. ![]()
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