The Conversion: A novel

Appelfeld, Aharon

ISBN 10: 0805210989 / ISBN 13: 9780805210989

Published by Schocken, 1999

Seller Inventory # 0805210989-3-21653143

Synopsis:

For Karl and his friends, Judaism is an obstacle that is easily discarded in their turn-of-the-century world. But as a political crisis unfolds, he rekindles a love affair that will force him to take a stand he could never have imagined.

About the Author: AHARON APPELFELD is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn's Light (both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger), and Badenheim 1939. Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award. Blooms of Darkness won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Conversion: A novel
Publisher: Schocken
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good