All Whom I Have Loved
A Novel
The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II.At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially, Paul lives with his mother-a secular, assimilated schoolteacher, who he adores until she betrays” him by marrying the gentile André. He is then sent to live with his father-once an admired avant-garde artist, but now reviled by the critics as a decadent Jew,” who drowns his anger, pain, and humiliation in drink. Paul searches in vain for stability…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-48132-0
- EAN: 9780307481320
- Produktnummer: 15729243
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'863 KB
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AHARON APPELFELD is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn's Light (both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger), and Badenheim 1939. Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award. Blooms of Darkness won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.
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