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Gwen Edelman is the author of The Train to Warsaw, a novel published by Grove Press in April 2014.
Her first novel, War Story, was translated into eight languages, won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France, and was a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist. She lived for many years in Paris and now lives in New York.
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