Aharon Appelfeld: 26 books

In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us–for the first time–the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth. Aharon Appelfeld’s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz...

Dit is geen boek dat vragen stelt en daarop antwoord geeft. Deze bladzijden zijn een beschrijving van een strijd, en aan deze strijd nemen alle delen van de ziel deel: de herinnering aan thuis, de ouders, de pastorale van de Karpatenbergen, de grootouders en de vele lichten die toen naar mijn ziel...

Erwin heeft de Shoah overleefd en is na vele omzwervingen in Palestina terechtgekomen. Daar geeft men hem de Hebreeuwse naam Aharon, als ware het een nieuwe identiteit. Hij raakt evenwel veelvuldig in een diepe slaap vol dromen, die hem niet uit zijn greep laat,zelfs niet wanneer hij wakker is. In...

"La memoria custodisce ciò che sceglie di custodire. Come il sogno, anche la memoria cerca di attribuire agli eventi un qualche significato." Aharon Appelfeld in questo libro autobiografico accetta infine il confronto con la propria memoria. Impresa dolorosa che scortica l'anima perché...

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author (“One of the greatest writers of the age” –The Guardian): a young Holocaust survivor takes his first steps toward creating a new life in the newly established state of Israel.  Erwin doesn’t remember much about his journey across...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind? Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge...

The 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...

**WINNER OF THE 2012 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE** A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”—The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss. The ghetto in which the Jews have been...

From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance...

A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage...

Plotseling, liefde van de veelgeprezen Aharon Appelfeld is een emotioneel boek over de groeiende liefde tussen een oudere schrijver die met zijn dramatische oorlogsverleden worstelt en zijn jonge ongetrouwde hulp. De Israëlische Ernst, in de zeventig, woont alleen. Zijn eerste vrouw en dochter zijn...

The second and last children's book by the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and Hebrew-language author of the award-winning Adam & Thomas. A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers, an eleven-year-old boy and an old man to whom the boy has been entrusted by his father, a Jew, fleeing...

In Verwondering, de laatste roman die Aharon Appelfeld schreef voor hij stierf, is Irena getuige geweest van een moord. Niet zozeer van de moord zelf, als wel van de opmaat ertoe. Haar buren, de familie Katz, moesten dagen geknield voor hun huis zitten terwijl het werd leeggeroofd. Ook werden ze gesommeerd...

«Un miracolo letterario vivente.» la Repubblica «La voce di Aharon Appelfeld è la più accorata della letteratura israeliana.» Lire È finita la guerra e Theo, giovane ebreo sopravvissuto a un campo di concentramento tedesco, vuole rientrare nel suo paese, in Austria. La strada...