Midnight train to Prague : a novel / Carol Windley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Windley, Carol, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen twenties--Fiction.

Nineteen twenties.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

World War, 1939-1945--Czech Republic--Prague--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Prague (Czech Republic)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Prague (Czech Republic).

Czech Republic--Prague.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

339 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.

Summary:

"In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hévíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry. Years later, Germany has invaded Russia. When Miklós fails to return from the eastern front, Natalia goes to Prague to wait for him. With a pack of tarot cards, she sets up shop as a fortune teller, and she meets Anna Schaeffer, the daughter of the woman she met decades earlier on that stalled train. The Nazis accuse Natalia of spying, and she is sent to a concentration camp. Though they are separated, her friendship with Anna grows as they fight to survive and to be reunited with their families"--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published in Canada in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd" -- title page verso.

ISBN:

9780802119735

0802119735

OCLC:

1191456833