Crossing the Borders of Time - A True Story of War, Exile, and a Love Reclaimed
by Leslie Maitland (9781921844713)

Leslie Maitland
Release Date: 26 April 2012
Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 400
Category: History
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 9781921844713
ISBN-10: 192184471X

France, 1941. Janine, a Jewish teenager, and Roland, her Catholic boyfriend, are passionately in love, and believe that nothing can come between them. But World war II intervenes, and Janine is forced to flee the Nazis with her family. They set sail from the docks of Marseille on one of the last ships to take Jews to safety. For 50 years, the last memory she has of Roland is an image of him in a rowboat on the sea, desperately trying to catch a last glimpse of her as the ship speeds towards the horizon.

Janine and her family become refugees in Cuba and, later, settle in the United States.  Their new world in unpredictable, but the family is bound together by love and their memories of happier years in Europe. Janine marries and has a family of her own, but never forgets her love for Roland.

Decades later, Janine's daughter, journalist Leslie Maitland, decides to track down the lost love who has haunted her mother for so many years. What happens when she finds Roland changes all of their lives irrevocably, and proves that even the worst violence of the 20th century is not enough to extinguish hope, passion, and romance.

Crossing the Borders of Time is at once an expansive history, a deeply personal family memoir, and a brilliant work of investigate journalism by an award-winning former New York Times reporter.  Yet, above all else, it is a unique love story that will move you from the first page to its touching conclusion.

'How the small flame of an undying love can illuminate the darkness of a tragic era. This elegantly told story is for everyone.' James Carroll, New York Times-bestselling author of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

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