This haunting novel begins as a group of Jewish vacationers arrive in Badenheim, a resort town near Vienna. Expecting their usual pleasant summer interlude despite the rumors of approaching war, they cling with desperation to normality, even as the Nazis close in and, finally, turn the resort into a prison. Aharon Appelfeld's first novel is the ...
Aharon Appelfeld's third novel is about the simpleminded and mute daughter in a large Jewish family. Set against the background of the Holocaust, the story takes the eponymous Tzili through a world she is unable to understand. Abandoned when her family flees the Nazis, Tzili endures a life of hardship, finally meeting up with a bizarre, mentally ...
At 17, Toni left her native Bukovina, "the land of the cattails," running off with a man to live in Vienna, where she shed her Jewishness. Now, at 34, she and her teenage son, Rudi, return home to try to locate her long-lost parents and reclaim her heritage for her half-Jewish son. However, the year is 1938 and, although Appelfeld never explicitly ...
In this powerful novel, Aharon Appelfeld grapples with the situation in Europe just before the Holocaust, when the Nazis were on the rise. The events of the past are told by a dispassionate third-person narrator, but Bruno, the adolescent son of a Jewish family and its only survivor, narrates his own story from the perspective of many years later, ...
"A Table For One" is a memoir of Aharon Appelfeld's city, Jerusalem. It brings forth an unknown side of Appelfeld's writing as he reveals the centrality of Jerusalem in his life and work. We discover that his "city of light" proved to be far more than a shelter and the place where Appelfeld came of age and spent his adult life: it became his ...
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer comes the haunting story of a Jewish family in 1930s Ukraine that prefigures the fate of the Jews of Europe during World War II.
A caravan of Jews wanders through pre-World War II Eastern Europe on a heartbreaking quest, in this latest novel from the award-winning writer. Among the group is Laish, a 15-year-old orphan, who narrates the story of this against-all-odds journey.
The title character of Aharon Appelfeld's ninth novel is a gentile who grew up in an anti-Semitic peasant community in Ukraine. When she runs away from her brutal home to a nearby town, she is taken in by a kindly Jewish family for whom she eventually becomes the housekeeper. Puzzled but impressed by the family's emphasis on books and learning, ...
Aharon Appelfeld writes a searingly candid memoir about what he has fictionalized so often: the Holocaust and his experiences in it. Sent to a camp at eight after the death of his parents, Appelfeld managed to escape two years later and hide out in the woods, occasionally mistreated by people who discovered him, until finally, at 14 when the war ...
Felix, a Viennese businessman, travels with his family to the wild and distant Carpathian Mountains where they hope to consult a healer who may provide a cure for daughter Helga's strange and seemingly incurable illness. There, after an arduous journey, the family--assimilated Jews--is trapped by the fierce winter weather at an inn where the only ...
In Aharon Appelfeld's 10th novel, set on a mountaintop in Eastern Europe, Gad and Amalia, brother and sister, are refugees from an abusive family. Now the guardians of an ancient cemetery, the burial place of Jewish martyrs, the two live a subsistence life. Cut off from their contemporaries by snow and altitude, and trapped in their isolation and ...
In Aharon Appelfeld's 12th novel, Karl Hüber, a Jew in Austria in the days before World War II, converts to Christianity--as many of his friends have done and at the urging of his dying mother--in order to get the civil service job he wants, a job that a Jew would have no chance for. He also falls in love with Gloria, his family's Christian ...
Like Jerzy Kosinki's novel THE PAINTED BIRD or Primo Levi's memoir THE TRUCE (American title, THE REAWAKENING), Aharon Appelfeld's novel, FOR EVERY SIN, is about a Holocaust survivor who, after four years in the camps, sets out to walk home across Europe. Desperately, he tries to put it all behind him, but as he travels across a strange, ...
Many years after the Holocaust, Erwin Siegelbaum is obsessed with finding Nachtigel, the Nazi commandant at the camp where Erwin's parents died, and murdering him in order to free himself from the burdens of the past. Endlessly riding the train through the central European landscape, Erwin buys and sells Jewish artifacts to finance his vengeful ...
Many years after the Holocaust, Erwin Siegelbaum is obsessed with finding Nachtigel, the Nazi commandant at the camp where Erwin's parents died, and murdering him in order to free himself from the burdens of the past. Endlessly riding the train through the central European landscape, Erwin buys and sells Jewish artifacts to finance his vengeful ...
Aharon Appelfeld sets this unsettling novel in the 1980s, in Israel, where an aging, embittered, and miserly Holocaust survivor named Bartfuss is locked into a bad marriage with a woman who managed to escape the camps--and whom Bartfuss therefore resents. Paradoxically, his own experiences, which he feels should make him kinder and more generous, ...
A perennial theme in Aharon Appelfeld's novels is the misguided attempt of Jews to discard their "Jewishness" so they can pass for gentile. In THE RETREAT, the setting is a rundown hotel of that name near Vienna, which has been founded by a man who helps people do just that, teaching them new ways of talking and acting. But it is 1937, and as the ...
This volume contains three essays (originally lectures) about Appelfeld's experiences in the Holocaust and in Israel, as well as an interview with him conducted by Philip Roth.
A perennial theme in Aharon Appelfeld's novels is the misguided attempt of Jews to discard their "Jewishness" so they can pass for gentile. In THE RETREAT, the setting is a rundown hotel of that name near Vienna, which has been founded by a man who helps people do just that, teaching them new ways of talking and acting. But it is 1937, and as the ...
With little of his fiction available in English translation, David Bergelson is revealed in this book to new readers seeking a more complete picture of worldwide Yiddish literature. The collection includes two short stories and a novella, which offer a taste of Bergelson's elegiac prose style.
Aharon Appelfeld sets this unsettling novel in the 1980s, in Israel, where an aging, embittered, and miserly Holocaust survivor named Bartfuss is locked into a bad marriage with a woman who managed to escape the camps--and whom Bartfuss therefore resents. Paradoxically, his own experiences, which he feels should make him kinder and more generous, ...
In this powerful novel, Aharon Appelfeld grapples with the situation in Europe just before the Holocaust, when the Nazis were on the rise. The events of the past are told by a dispassionate third-person narrator, but Bruno, the adolescent son of a Jewish family and its only survivor, narrates his own story from the perspective of many years later, ...
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