Retreat, The, Appelfeld, Aharon

Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: Iron Tracks, The
ISBN: 0805210997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805210996
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Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: Conversion, The
ISBN: 0805210989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805210989
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Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: Unto The Soul
ISBN: 0805210970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805210972
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Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: Poland, A Green Land
ISBN: 0805212825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805212822
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Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: To The Edge Of Sorrow
ISBN: 0805212728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805212723
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Автор: Appelfeld Aharon
Название: Suddenly, Love
ISBN: 0805212469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805212464
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Описание:

"Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker

A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined.

Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he divorced his shrewish second wife) and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, is the unmarried daughter of Holocaust survivors who has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier; she arrives every morning promptly at eight and usually leaves every afternoon at three. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young woman who runs his house, listens to him read from his work, and occasionally offers a spirited commentary on it.

But Ernst's writing gives him no satisfaction, and he is haunted by his godless, Communist past. His health, already poor, begins to deteriorate even further; he becomes mired in depression and seems to lose the will to live. But this is something Irena will not allow. As she becomes an increasingly important part of his life--moving into his home, encouraging him in his work, easing his pain--Ernst not only regains his sense of self and discovers the path through which his writing can flow but he also discovers, to his amazement, that Irena is in love with him. And, even more astonishing, he realizes that he is in love with her, too.

Автор: Appelfeld, Aharon
Название: Poland, A Green Land
ISBN: 0805243615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805243611
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Автор: Appelfeld Aharon
Название: The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping
ISBN: 0805212612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805212617
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Описание: A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel.

Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and made their way to Naples, where they filled refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. Erwin becomes part of a group of boys being rigorously trained both physically and mentally by an emissary from Palestine for life in their new home. When he and his fellow clandestine immigrants are released by British authorities from their detention camp near Haifa, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend the land and speak their new language. But a part of Erwin clings to the past--to memories of his parents, his mother tongue, the Ukrainian city where he was born--and he knows that despite what he is being told, who he was is just as important as who he is becoming.

When he is wounded in an engagement with snipers, Erwin spends months trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved, tormented father had failed. With the support of his friends and the encouragement of his mother (who visits him in his dreams), Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches--and with his pen. Once again, Aharon Appelfeld mines personal experience to create dazzling, masterly fiction with a universal resonance.