Badenheim, 1939 - Softcover

Appelfeld, Aron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879237996 ISBN 13: 9780879237998

Publisher: David R Godine Pub, 1999

Synopsis

In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious to the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort

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Review:

As real as Kafka's unnamed Prague ... imbued with a Watteau-like melancholy. -- Gabriel Annan "New York Review of Books"

About the Author:

Aharon Appelfeld was born in Czernovitz, Bukovina, in 1932. When the Nazis swept east, his mother was killed, and he was transported to the labor camp at Transnistria, from which he soon escaped. For the next three years, he wandered in the forests. Sometime in 1944, he was picked up by the Red Army, served in field kitchens in Ukraine, and thence made his way to Italy. He reached Palestine in 1946. A veteran of the Israeli Army, now married and the father of three children, he teaches at Ben Gurion University.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R Godine Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879237996
• ISBN 13: 9780879237998
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148