About this title: 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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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Boston: David R. Godine 1990 270 pages, 4 3/4 x 7 3/4, large format trade paperback CONDITION: VERY GOOD, small inked notation on front fly & a little corner wear, near fine condition NOTES-by the author of Badenheim 1939. read more
Description: Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As Issued No Jacket. Reprint. Novel by author of Badenheim 1939. Bumping to one corner, a couple of dings to the edes of cover, and some reading creases to spine. Overall a nice clean reading copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: David R Godine Pub, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780879237981ISBN:0879237988
Description: Near Fine. This 5 x 7.5 softcover has 270 pages. The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected account discloses the slow onset of disaster. His father, a successful ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 1990-02
ISBN-13:9780879237981ISBN:0879237988
Description: Excellent Conditon. SoftCover, Excellent Condition, clean/unmarked, tight binding, minor edge/cover wear, from a private collection. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys,, Toronto, Canada:
Date Published: 1982.
ISBN-13:9780919630932ISBN:0919630936
Description: Fine/Fine. 'International Fiction List' Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 270 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first Canadian edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket. read more
"Another fortuitous discovery at Half Price Books... I picked this up and flipped through it and could tell instantly that it was a beautifully written novel with a Holocaust theme. It starts with an idyllic country journey and a foreboding train trip home for a Jewish mother and son. I just started this.
I know this is an absurdly high rating for a book I just started, but I'll certainly adjust...."
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