About this title: 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, ...
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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. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1988, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, first U.S. edition.
Description: Bartfuss is a Holocaust survivor, but his fight isn't over. He's trapped in a bitter marriage and engaged in shady business transactions, all the while beset by memories and fears he finds he cannot s hake. Book is rated F except for a sticky substance on inside back page and several minor "soiling marks" on inside front page. DJ is rated F. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New York
Date Published: 1988
Description: First Edition, First Printing; ex-library copy with the usual blemishes, residue to endpapers where old mylar was glued to (hidden under flaps of dust jacket), else hardcover in VERY GOOD+ condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket, protected by clear new archival plastic sleeve. Slight spine lean. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC INC
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802133588ISBN:0802133584
Description: New. Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To The Land... read more
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