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Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

Sarah Wildman

Hardcover | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 1410 Users | 274 Reviews

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Original Title:	Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
ISBN:	1594631557 (ISBN13: 9781594631559)

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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 desparate 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 rescuing a life seemingly lost to history.

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Title	:	Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
Author	:	Sarah Wildman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	October 30th 2014 by Riverhead Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Biography. War. World War II. Literature. Jewish

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Ratings: 3.83 From 1410 Users | 274 Reviews

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I was sadly un-enamored of this book. In fact, I've been reading others' reviews for the past 10 minutes, trying to figure out why it's so highly rated. Don't get me wrong: it's not terrible, but it's also not that great. It didn't work for me anyway. I thought this book would be about Valy, the former love of the author's grandfather who was left behind when the grandfather fled Europe during the buildup to WWII. However, it was about the author's search for the former love of her grandfather,

Everyone loved this book, but I couldn't get used to the author's style. I guess I like my historical narratives less peppered with reflection-- but still an excellent piece of journalism and memoir.

I received a free galley copy of this book from Penguin First to Read program. The book is about Sarah Wildman's search to find out what happened to her grandfather's first love during World War II and the Holocaust. Sarah comes across some papers belonging to her grandfather after his death, and among those papers are pictures of a woman she has never seen before, Valy. Her grandmother informs her that the woman is her grandfather's, Carl Wildman, first love but will not say anything more on

So, so glad to have read this book.

I agree with what many reviewers have already said. The author inserted herself too fully into the book, repeated herself and information too many times and just isn't that great a writer overall. The story, however, is extremely moving and I agree with people who have remarked how important it is that this story has been published. The more the horrible experience of life under Nazi Germany and the holocaust can be told in stories about individuals and families, the better. The contents of the

This is an outstanding book which I would highly recommend for all those who are interested in WWII history and the tragic fate of the Jews. In fact, I found the book so compelling that I had to force myself to stop reading it at night, or I would never be able to sleep! This is both a meticulously researched account of recent history as well as an emotionally charged memoir--a true tour de force!

Disclaimer I received this book as a reader for Penguin's First to Read.A true 5-star read! A books that change your life nominee... Wildman strikes a perfect balance with Romance and History lovers by including her research story along side that of Valy's creating the ever desired nonfiction work reading like fiction. Through a synergistic serendipity of the research community and her own, Wildman is able to bring the reader on the journey from Yours, Valy- at the close of a letter toward Valy-