AHARON APPELFELD

Pięćdziesięciopięcioletni Erwin Siegelbaum od czterdziestu lat raz w roku przemierza pociągiem tę samą trasę w południowo-centralnej Europie. Swą rytualną podróż rozpoczyna późną wiosną w Wirblbahn, a kończy w środku zimy po przejechaniu dwudziestu jeden stacji. Zawsze odwiedza te same miasteczka, zajazdy, hotele i targowiska, na których wyszukuje...

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...

A NovelA poignant, heartbreaking new work by ';one of the best novelists alive' (Irving Howe)the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who 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...

A Novel***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 and a career as a mathematician,...

A NovelFleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the familys customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in...

The Story of a LifeThe youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her panic-stricken family flees the...