Catherine Hoffmann’s ‘Across the Burning’
Catherine Hoffmann’s novel, Across the Burning, was released by Indra in October 2010.
Across the Burning is the second novel of the Lia Mendez trilogy, an epic which spans three generations of the Mendez-Kremzier and Heiman families, the paths of their lives intersected by the conflicts and changes which shaped Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Once enthralled by the grand vistas of travel, Frederic returns to Hungary as Europe is about to burst into the fire of World War II. He, a sharp and worldly non-believer, returns to Rudi Wolf, his soul friend, to Lia Mendez, his only love – his two Jewish friends now married, but still welcoming him as part of their life. With passion and loyalty to each other the three friends face the Nazi occupation.
A story of sensibility and identity, of exile, abandonment and returning to yourself.
Of Exile and Yearning, the first book of the trilogy, was released in September 2009.
ISBN 9781920787189
Literary fiction
pb 234 x 150 mm
290 pp
$29.95 rrp
Special Offer: In Australia, a personal order for one copy with postage included costs $30.00.