In Another Time
- by Jillian Cantor
- Novel
- Romance, Music and Musicals, War
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- In Another Time by Jillian Cantor (Harper Perennial, March 2019) [print · e-book].
Hanna Ginsberg—a young Jewish violinist in Germany during the rise of Hitler—awakens in a field in 1946 with no memory of the past decade.
—Michael Main
“Do you have a time machine,” he’d asked his father. It was hard to fathom, unbelievable even as he’d said it, but the idea fascinated him with little-boy wonder.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: Most of the story of young Hanna and Max.
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: When Hanna awakens with no memory of the war.
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Hanna’s later life and Max’s eventual landing spot.
- Timeline Models
- Multiple Naive Timelines: Max changed the Feinstein’s fate and maybe made other changes, but the changes are not examined in any detail.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: The hallway is a wormhole-based portal.
- Themes
- Save “Jimmy”!: Max saves his friends, the Feinsteins.
- Save “Lois”!: Max wants to save his love, Hanna.
- Self-Defeating Acts: Although not discussed, Max’s saving the Feinsteins is a self-defeating act.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: The travel killed Max’s parents and is making Max ill.
- Real-World Tags
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- In Another Time by Jillian Cantor (Harper Perennial, March 2019) [print · e-book].
- audio reading.
In Another Time by Jillian Cantor (HarperAudio, March 2019) [audio].