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Paper Love

Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

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Publisher Description

One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory.

Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A–G.” What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy—Valerie Scheftel.   Her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.

Valy’s name wasn’t unknown to her—Wildman had once asked her grandmother about a dark-haired young woman whose images she found in an old photo album. “She was your grandfather’s true love,” her grandmother said at the time, and refused any other questions. But now, with the help of the letters, Wildman started to piece together Valy’s story. They revealed a woman desperate to escape and  clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom.

Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents. She discovered, to her shock, an entire world of other people searching for the same woman. On in the course of  discovering  Valy’s ultimate fate, she was forced to reexamine the story of her grandfather’s triumphant escape and how this history fit within her own life and in the process, she rescues a life seemingly lost to history.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2014
October 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
10.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Homeworth ,

Very poignant true story

This book about the Holocaust is extremely well written and captivated me.

Mishele H ,

Paper Love

Paper Love is hard to categorize-- part detective story, part history, and part love story. Sarah takes the reader on a journey of search and discovery, that builds on itself page after page. There are dead ends and cinematic breakthroughs and it is filled with twists and unexpected turns. This book will stay with me for a very long time. It is one of the best books I've read in quite a while.

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