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Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a resort town near the forests of Vienna, is preparing for the arts festival of the summer season. The hot ...Show more
Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 nigh ...Show more
Katerina by Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The teenage Katerina flees her abusive home in a poor, Christian village in the 1880s, finding work and shelter in the home of a Jewish family, and in the warmth of their family life and beauty of their Jewish rituals she begins to know safety for the first time. Their life is brutally disrupted when a ...Show more
The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
23.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War Two. Their peaceful life is upended when soldiers inv ...Show more
The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld
14.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and ...Show more
Until the Dawn's Light by Aharon Appelfeld
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
***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 for university an ...Show more
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