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, as a middle-aged man living in Israel. Returning to Austria and the town of his birth, Bruno witnesses a very different world from the one he knew as a child. There he must confront the work of his writer father, whose arrogant refusal to see what ...
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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: 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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David Godine, Boston,
Date Published: 1981
Description: Frontis, [1], 270p, [3]. 20cm. First American edition. Green cloth over boards, titling in gilt on the spine; dust jacket. Fine/Fine with small crease and tear at tail of 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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