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Europa Editions
August 2016
On Sale: August 16, 2016
Featuring: Frank Gold
224 pages
ISBN: 1609453328
EAN: 9781609453329
Kindle: B01BS7N7IU
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Historical
Joan London, author of Gilgamesh, gives her readers
an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about
displacement, recovery, resilience, and love with The
Golden Age. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian Jews,
escape the perils of World War II to the safety of Australia
in the 1940s. But not long after their arrival Frank is
diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children’s
hospital called The Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the
most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a girl who radiates
pure light. Frank and Elsa fall in love, fueling one
another’s rehabilitation, facing the perils of polio and
adolescence hand in hand, and scandalizing the prudish staff
of The Golden Age. Meanwhile, Frank and Elsa’s parents must cope with their
changing realities. Elsa’s mother Margaret, who has given up
everything to be a perfect mother, must reconcile her hopes
and dreams with her daughter’s sickness. Frank’s parents,
transplants to Australia from a war-torn Europe, are
isolated newcomers in a country that they do not love and
that does not seem to love them. Frank’s mother Ida, a
renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western
deserts of Australia to become her home. But her husband,
Meyer, slowly begins to free himself from the past and
integrate into a new society. With tenderness and humor, The Golden Age tells a
deeply moving story about illness and recovery. It is a book
about learning to navigate the unfamiliar, about embracing
music, poetry, death, and, most importantly, life.
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