Badenheim 1939
$23.09
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2024
Summary
A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town.
“A masterpiece … the greatest novel of the Holocaust” - The Guardian
Badenheim, a resort town near the forests of Vienna, is preparing for the arts festival of the summer season. The hotel workers and local tradespeople rush to prepare the small town for the influx of vacationers. But just as the season is getting into full swing, a small note appears on a muni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241681183 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241681189 |
| Author: | Aharon Appelfeld |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A small masterpiece * The New York Times Book Review *
Memory and trauma go hand in hand [in this] horribly effective analogy of the crushing effect of the Holocaust – John Self * Observer *
Aharon Appelfeld’s controlled fiction compresses large themes into small spaces… He is a worthy successor to Kafka’ – Jonathan Raban * The New York Times Book Review *
Among us, the writer-survivors, Appelfeld’s voice has a unique, unmistakeable tone … I am struck with awe and admiration – Primo Levi
Like a bedtime story written by Kafka * The Tablet *
A displaced writer of displaced fiction who has made of displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own – Philip Roth
Like something by the Brothers Grimm crossed with Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer * The New York Times *
About The Author
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the Prix Medicis Etranger, the Israel Prize, and the Nelly Sachs Prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.
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