Love and Treasure

Love and Treasure è il titolo del nuovo romanzo di Ayelet Waldman (Knopf). 

L'antefatto del romanzo è il treno ungherese dell'oro - il treno in cui gli ebrei ungheresi avevano caricato i loro oggetti preziosi per metterli in salvo, e che più o meno sparì nel nulla. Catherine Taylor dice, "Ayelet Waldman’s new novel, “Love and Treasure,” places the Hungarian Gold Train at the heart of a multigenerational tale largely set in Salzburg in 1945 and in Budapest, both in the present and in 1913. Crucial to its plot is an enameled pendant, intricately worked in the design of a peacock, unusually colored in purple, white and green. Waldman skillfully interweaves this striking and enigmatic object — a symbol, as the book progresses, of fatal bad luck — into an ambitious sweep of history, setting the loss of millions of human lives against the pendant’s own poignant, improbable survival". nyt.