Aharon Appelfeld: 26 books

Appelfeld vertelt het verhaal van Bartfuss, `de onsterfelijke genoemd vanwege zijn kamp ervaringen. Gevangen in een tragisch huwelijk worstelt Bartfuss met gevoelens en herinneringen die hem angst aanjagen en tegenstaan, en probeert hij tegelijkertijd waardigheid en compassie levend te houden essentiële...

A poignant, heartbreaking new work by “one of the best novelists alive” (Irving Howe)—the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined.   Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine...

The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II. At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially,...

Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized...

***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)*** From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (“One of the best novelists alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.   A high school honor student bound...

Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl's future...

In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from...

The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk,...

*HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards Adam and Thomas* is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They...

UNO DEGLI ULTIMI GRANDI TESTIMONI DELLA SHOAH SCRIVE IL ROMANZO DELLA RESISTENZA EBRAICA Ucraina, ultimo anno di guerra. Sfuggito per un soffio alla deportazione, Edmond a diciassette anni è entrato in una banda di partigiani ebrei capeggiata dal carismatico Kamil. Gli addestramenti quotidiani,...

È la primavera del 1939 e la località di Badenheim, in Austria, si affolla di villeggianti. Ma questa non sarà una vacanza come tutte le altre. Mentre gli ospiti si radunano per assistere alle attrazioni offerte dall'impresario Pappenheim, si moltipllcano le premonizioni inquietanti, che però...

Het is voorjaar 1939, een onrustige periode in Europa. Badenheim, een Oostenrijks vakantieoord, bereidt zich voor op het zomerseizoen en de bijbehorende vakantiegangers. De bezoekers zijn joods en de kleine drama's in het hotel maskeren een aanzwellende dreiging die zij niet onder ogen durven zien....