The Bridge - Softcover

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He crossed a bridge to save her. Two years later, a stranger's notebook sends him back. In April 1994, Jerry Mmary carried a woman's passport across the Rusumo bridge and left her on the wrong side of it. Two years later, he is an accountant in Dar es Salaam who has learned to survive by adding columns of numbers that never quite balance. Then a package arrives from the edge of Zaire. Inside is an oilskin notebook and one line in a child's handwriting: She is alive. Eva Mukamurenzi is a schoolteacher who has spent two years reciting a register of thirty-four names to the dark, because someone has to say them. She has been hidden by strangers who ask nothing and pay a price she is only beginning to understand. To reach her, Jerry must walk into the camps along the Zaire border and trust a boy who knows every path and every lie. The notebook holds two kinds of marks: strokes and circles. Each one is a life. Before the last page, Jerry will learn what the strokes mean, who paid for every night Eva stayed hidden, and what a promise costs when you keep it. The Bridge of Hope and Sorrow is a novel about love that refuses to stop counting, about the quiet people who hold a bridge up so someone else can cross, and about the debts survivors owe each other. For readers of The Kite Runner, Half of a Yellow Sun and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.

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