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Title details for In Another Time by Jillian Cantor - Available

In Another Time

A Novel

by Jillian Cantor
Saskia Maarleveld
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A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.

Love brought them together. But only time can save them...

1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isn't long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, the climate drastically changes in Germany as Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not. But unbeknownst to Hanna is the fact that Max has a secret, which causes him to leave for months at a time—a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes too dangerous for her because of her religion.

In 1946, Hanna Ginsberg awakens in a field outside of Berlin. Disoriented and afraid, she has no memory of the past ten years and no idea what has happened to Max. With no information as to Max's whereabouts—or if he is even still alive—she decides to move to London to live with her sister while she gets her bearings. Even without an orchestra to play in, she throws herself completely into her music to keep alive her lifelong dream of becoming a concert violinist. But the music also serves as a balm to heal her deeply wounded heart and she eventually gets the opening she long hoped for. Even so, as the days, months, and years pass, taking her from London to Paris to Vienna to America, she continues to be haunted by her forgotten past, and the fate of the only man she has ever loved and cannot forget.

Told in alternating viewpoints—Max in the years leading up to WWII, and Hanna in the ten years after—In Another Time is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.

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    March 5, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9780062908308
      • File size: 253394 KB
      • Duration: 08:47:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Saskia Maarleveld and George Newborn provide a dual narration of this intriguing historical fiction with a time-travel twist. German bookstore owner Max Beissinger and German-Jewish violinist Hanna Ginsberg, star-crossed lovers, meet before WWII. Their love lasts far beyond it despite being separated from each other and despite Hanna's postwar amnesia. While the majority of characters are German, both Newbern and Maarleveld use American accents for much of the dialogue, an excellent choice that contrasts nicely with the subtle German accents they give to Hanna and Max. Music connects the threads of time tying the pair together. Scenes of Hanna playing would be enhanced by appropriate background music, although most listeners will be familiar with the classical pieces she is said to be playing. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      November 15, 2018

      Violinist Hanna Ginsberg wakes up in a field outside Berlin in 1946, clutching her instrument and having no idea of how she got there. Her last memory was standing in the bookshop of her beloved Max Beissinger in 1936, with the climate in Germany perilous to Jews and their sympathizers. Max isn't Jewish, but he has loved Hanna since first hearing her play. He wants to save her, save them both, and he just might have a means to do it, but it involves entering a portal to the future. While presenting the circumstances in Germany during the 1930s, Cantor (The Lost Letter) demands that readers suspend disbelief on several levels (e.g., Hanna and Max are physically intimate almost from the beginning of their relationship, yet there is never a pregnancy). VERDICT What might have been a truly fascinating tale of pre-Holocaust Europe asks too much of its audience. The most intriguing details come near the end, when truths are revealed. However, libraries with large collections of Holocaust fiction might be interested. [See Prepub Alert, 10/1/18.]--Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2019
      Max Beissinger and Hanna Ginsburg fall in love, but their relationship is destined for heartache when Hitler comes to power and outlaws marriage between Germans and Jews.Max, a bookstore owner, stumbles across Hanna playing her violin at the Lyceum and is smitten. Hanna takes care of her sick mother and practices her instrument in hopes of earning a place in an orchestra. She conceals her growing affair with Max from her mother and sister, who would not approve of her dating outside the Jewish faith. Max has a secret, something he discovers in a journal his father kept, that causes him to suddenly vanish, often for months at a time, telling no one where he is going or where he has been. Hanna breaks off their engagement because of Max's disappearances, but Max believes his secret can save Hanna should the fraught political climate take a turn for the worse as Hitler continues to rise in power. One evening, when he and Hanna are at his bookstore, Nazis bash the door open. Max grabs Hanna to secure her in a hidden closet, but she breaks away and rushes back for her violin. The Nazis grab them both, and they are separated. The next thing Hanna knows, she awakens in a field, not remembering the events of the past 10 years. Max, who had a mysterious glimpse of the future, knows she must be alive and works to find her. Cantor propels readers back and forth from the 1930s to the '50s in this well-researched historical novel, showing how the past impacted the future, including the secret of Hanna's lost decade. Readers may want to urge Max to confess his secret to Hanna...but then there would be no story. Cantor elevates love as a powerful force that transcends tragedy and shows how music speaks to even the cruelest hearts.A powerful story that exalts the strength of the human spirit.

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    • Booklist

      February 1, 2019
      Hanna Ginsburg wakes up in a field in Germany in 1946, clutching her violin. The last thing she remembers is being with her beloved Max in his bookshop in Gutenstat 10 years earlier, as the SA pounded on the door. Now, she suffers from memory loss related to trauma?but what trauma? As she goes on to rebuild her life and, in particular, fulfill her dream of finding a place in a symphony orchestra, alternate narrative threads carry the reader back to the 1930s, with events presented from both Hanna and Max's perspectives. Hanna is a gifted violinist, but her single-minded focus on her music blinds her to rising anti-Semitism, while Max, who is not Jewish, recognizes the threat. He has already helped some Jewish neighbors escape into the future through a closet in his bookshop, and he hopes he can save Hanna this way as well. Though the answer to the mystery of Hanna's lost years feels underdeveloped, Cantor (The Lost Letter, 2017) endows the novel's historical and musical elements with enough interest to keep readers engaged.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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