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Blooms of Darkness
Aharon Appelfeld
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Paperback. 'Aharon Appelfeld is fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust. The stories he tells, as here in Blooms of Darkness, are small, intimate, and quietly narrated and yet are transfused into searing works of art by Appelfeld's profound understanding of loss, pain, cruelty, and grief.' - Philip Roth Translator(s): Green, Jeffrey M. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. 300 pages. 'Aharon Appelfeld is fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust. The stories he tells, as here in Blooms of Darkness, are small, intimate, and quietly narrated and yet are transfused into searing works of art by Appelfeld's profound understanding of loss, pain, cruelty, and grief.' - Philip Roth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 131 x 196 x 22. Weight: 272. Translator(s): Green, Jeffrey M.
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done to her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. When she's not mired in self-loathing, Mariana is fiercely protective of the bewildered, painfully polite young boy. And Hugo becomes protective of Mariana, too, trying ... Read more
The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done to her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. When she's not mired in self-loathing, Mariana is fiercely protective of the bewildered, painfully polite young boy. And Hugo becomes protective of Mariana, too, trying ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846882111
SKU
V9781846882111
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About Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks (winner of the National Jewish Book Award), and Tzili: The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger). Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Bocaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik ... Read more
Reviews for Blooms of Darkness
'The parents' dilemma of how to live with horror and what to tell the children; Hugo's inexorable forgetting; the inability to understand what you fear [ - ] all are caught in Appelfeld's glancing, delicate prose.' - The Independent