About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Perfect Bound Paper
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780671435929ISBN:0671435922
Description: Very Good + to Near Fine. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light wear, some age yellowing. Binding tight, pages clean. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. 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: 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
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: 2001-11
ISBN-13:9780815629351ISBN:0815629354
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: Good. 0879233427 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket
Date Published: 1981-11-01
ISBN-13:9780671435929ISBN:0671435922
Description: New. Mass paper back book New * Unmarked* * All merchandise is fully guaranteed* Buy from a professional company that cares about your satisfaction*S. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780671435929ISBN:0671435922
Description: Very Good. Light hinge crease, toning, and edge wear. Binding is straight and tight, book is unmarked. read more
Edition: English ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: Fair in fair dust jacket. Usual library markings, stickers and pocket, hinge is cracked. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 148 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: VG/VG. 0879233427. Light general wear, DJ a bit edgeworn but a nice clean copy with bright interior pages.; 8vo; 148 pages; Lit. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: VG/VG- 0879233427. Light general wear, DJ edgeworn and rubbed but a nice copy with clean bright interior pages.; 8vo; 148 pages; Duplicate shelf. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. First English Edition. 148 pgs vg condition, except for some w/underlinings and/or writing; brown cloth cover w/gold embossed lettering on spine in fine condition; dj has slight shelf wear. Jacket & interior illustration by Nancy Lawton read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher, Boston
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 0879233427. Cloth. DJ exterior rubbed with short tears. Interior is clean and crisp.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 148 pages. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: David Godine.,, Boston, Massachusetts:
Date Published: 1980.
ISBN-13:9780879233426ISBN:0879233427
Description: Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo, cloth. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 148 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, with the previous owner's name on the front endpaper. In a very good, edge worn dust jacket with the original price. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press, United States
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780671435929ISBN:0671435922
Description: Near Fine + A beautiful copy. read more
Edition: First Printing of This Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Washington Square Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780671435929ISBN:0671435922
Description: Very Good. 4 1/8" x 7" 0671435922 PAPERBACK It is the spring of 1939 and vacationers are arriving in Badenheim, the charming resort town for cultivated Jews. And, mysteriously, inspectors from the Sanitation Department are here as well, putting up posters of Poland and barbed wire fences and requiring the Jewish guests to register in a Golden Book...Light wear at edges, reading creases, lightly rubbed. read more
"A book/play about a Jewish resort town outside of Vienna in 1939. Although this piece of historical fiction became more interesting as I read, I had a difficult time getting though this short book. If you are into historical fiction particularly that of WWII this would be a good read, but it wasn't my cup of tea."
"Set in a German spa during the time of the expanding Sanitation Department of the resort town calls on the vacationing Jew to register... The prose is simple, detached, ironic; the hotel band plays, lovers stroll green parks, the Final Solution at first seems nothing more threatening than a slightly offbeat postcard or street sign."
"I so wanted to like this book. It's hard to know if its failure lies partly in the translation or if the work itself just lacks. The flow of the story felt choppy, the language sometimes repetitive. For a Holocaust story it entirely lacked emotion. At times I found it confusing, especially with the characters. There were so many 2-dimensional characters that I just didn't feel like I got to know any of them at all, which lead me to sometimes forget who was who - and even worse, I formed no emotional attachment to any of them and therefore was not moved by their imminent extermination. The story follows the mountain vacation town of Badenheim from Spring to Autum 1939. The story progresses from their leisurely vacation in the beginning, to their mandatory registration with the Sanitation Dept, to their ghettoization in the summer, to their forced removal to Poland in the Fall. However, most characters are complacent to emigrate to Poland, except for the few Jews that are Austrian born and don't understand why they, too, have to leave. This creates resentment with the Ostjuden, which I presume are non-Austrian Jews?? or non-modern Jews? To sound cliched, they are like sheeps to the slaughter happily going to the train station, thinking that there is some reward for them in Poland. Even when the trains arrive, which turn out to be cargo trains and not passenger cabins, Dr. Pappenhaim comments that it must be a short journey if they are permitted to travel in such a filthy way. The story felt entirely undeveloped to me. Almost like an outline that was never filled in. There were details where none were necessary, and a total lack of detail and emotion everywhere else. Such a disappointment."
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