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Pub. Date
2012
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In World War II Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, a servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In 1971, a girl steps out of a Chevy with a song . A few years from now, in Italy, a scientist discovers links between time and the human brain, and her...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Sometimes it takes hundreds of years to make a single connection. Five stories transport the reader into the lives of people desperate for human connection, ranging from World War II Poland to a near-future Italy where a scientist learns how time and the human brain are connected. While not all human connections are successful, each attempt affects countless lives over the course of the centuries that pass within these pages.
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