Synopsis
Odds of Survival is a braided historical novel based on family history concealed from the author by his parents. The secret was that their families were Jewish at a time and place that was perilous for Jews.
At the beginning of 1938, two Jewish families live happy and successful lives in cosmopolitan Vienna. On March 12, without firing a shot, the Nazis annex Austria into the German Reich and Adolf Hitler marches into Vienna with his army. This sudden, terrifying event tears each of these close-knit families apart and scatters their members across the globe as they snatch at any possibility of safe haven.
Eighteen-year-old Liesl flees alone to London and a servant’s life. Liesl’s future soulmate Peter is deported from Vienna and thrown into a Hungarian jail. Liesl’s parents Otti and Ernst flee on the trans-Siberian railway to a foreign life in Shanghai. Two years later they sail to Manila in the Philippines, arriving just as Japan’s bombardment and occupation begin.
By the end of 1945, all four of them and several more family members converge on New York City as though drawn together by magnetic forces. Liesl was the author's mother and Peter was his father.
Odds of Survival is a tale of deep family bonds and what happens when they are torn apart. It is a tale of survival against terrible odds and the rebuilding of family at journey’s end.
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Odds of Survival
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