Before WWII breaks out, Lenka is an art student living in Prague. She falls in love with a man named Josef, and they quickly marry. Then, just as the war tears the world apart, it also separates these two lovers. Lenka is lead to believe that Josef has died on a ship. Josef believes that Lenka died in the concentration camp that she was sent to. Each one carries on with life after the war with a broken heart. Then, decades later, they unexpectedly meet one another again. 'The Lost Wife' by Alyson Richman, is a novel about first love, human endurance, and the tragedies that wars leave in their wake.
This novel is a beautiful, tragic love story. You find yourself mourning the lives that could have been lived if only a few moments in time had happened differently. You can feel the characters heartache, their resilience, and their undying hope for a better future. And once again, like so many novels I have read before, you experience the dreadful events that took place within the awful concentration camps of WWII. This book brought forth so many emotions within me, and any book that can do that, is definitely worth reading again and again.
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