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Retreat by Aharon Appelfeld (1984, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100525242376

ISBN-139780525242376

eBay Product ID (ePID)4420364

Product Key Features

Original LanguageHebrew

Book TitleRetreat

Number of Pages164 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1984

TopicGeneral, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorAharon Appelfeld

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight320.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN83-025426

Reviews"Appelfeld in one of the greatest writers of the age." -- The Guardian (London) "With his stark, swift prose, Appelfeld creates a vision that is both disturbing and elegiac . . . a devastating new classic in Holocause literature." -- Vogue

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal892.4/36

SynopsisThe year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in short, how to pass--as a gentile. But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel's patrons, men and women who are necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, The Retreat is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."

LC Classification NumberPJ5054.A755R4 1984