The Golden Age: A Novel

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The Golden Age: A Novel

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: During WWII, a Jewish boy copes with a new homeland, a polio diagnosisâ€”and falling in love for the first time.

Frank Goldâ€™s family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival, thirteen-year-old Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling childrenâ€™s hospital called the Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a girl who radiates pure light.

Soon, Frank and Elsa fall in love, fueling one anotherâ€™s rehabilitation, facing the perils of illness and adolescence hand in handâ€”and scandalizing the prudish staff of the Golden Age. Their parents, meanwhile, are coping with their own challenges. Elsaâ€™s mother must reconcile her hopes and dreams with the reality of her daughterâ€™s sickness. Frankâ€™s parents are isolated newcomers in a country they do not love and that does not seem to love them back. Frankâ€™s mother, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home. But her husband slowly begins to free himself from the past and integrate into a new society.

A winner of multiple literary awards in Australia, The Golden Age is a deeply moving novel about hardship and resilience that â€œgraciously captures young love in a quiet and beautifully sculpted story that is easily devoured in one sittingâ€ (Library Journal).

â€œPoetic intensity suffuses the novelÂ .Â .Â . Resisting easy sentimentality, [it] presents polio rehabilitation as a metaphor for postwar recovery.â€ â€”The New Yorker

â€œBeautiful.â€ â€”The Dallas Morning News

â€œThe Golden Age is pretty much perfect.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Country	USA
Author	Joan London
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781609453268
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Europa Editions
Manufacturer	Europa Editions
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2016-08-16
Publisher	Europa Editions
ReleaseDate	2019-10-08
Studio	Europa Editions

The Golden Age: A Novel

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