num_pages: 144
description: The ordeal of Hungarian Jewry during WWII survivor guilt and the unbridgeable distances between people yearning to connect-these are the major motifs sounded in this brisk elegiac second U.S. appearance by the Dutch author of The Twins. . . . A consummate dramatization of the impenetrable mysteriousness of other people's lives: convincing proof that de Loo is one of Europe's most accomplished novelists.-Kirkus Reviews starredFascinating. . . . Yet another way to understand the effects of war the tangled muddled absurdity of it how its traces remain in the blood for generations.-Los Angeles TimesTessa de Loo was born in the Netherlands and writes in Dutch. She lives in Portugal and Paris.
language: English
title: A Bed in Heaven
publisher: Soho Press