Joe Kavalier, a young artist and magician, escapes pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, making his way to the home of Sam Clay, his Brooklyn cousin. Sam dreams of making it big in the emerging comic-book trade and sees Joe as the person to help him. As the cousins gain success, Joe banks his earnings to bring his family from Prague and falls in love with Rosa Saks, daughter of an art dealer. When the ship carrying his brother to America is torpedoed, Joe joins the navy. Half-insane, he returns to a wandering life that leads back to Rosa and now husband Sam in 1953. A novel of love and loss, and the ability of art to transcend the "harsh physics" of this world and gives us a magical glimpse of "the mysterious spirit world beyond."  _Library Journal
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