Ripples of Time - Hardcover

This prize-winning novel was inspired by a series of questions in an application for compensation for Nazi atrocities. It is highly autobiographical, so the characters are real people, but it is a novel. Ripples of Time acknowledges, but does not dwell on, the horrors of war; rather it introduces us to the people and their stories. The saga of the family is interspersed with several anecdotal chapters of differing flavors. It takes us back three generations, introducing the English-speaking reader most delightfully to life in turn-of-the-entury provincial Hungary over a century ago, through life in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire in the aftermath of World War I and the Trianon treaty. We learn what it was like for parts of our country to suddenly become part of another country, foreign citizens and all, and we become aware of the degree of anti-Semitism and how it affected ordinary people who happened to be Jewish.