Review
"Praise for Aharon Appelfeld:
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"Badenheim 1939""
""The writing flows seamlessly . . . [This is] a small masterpiece."
--"The New York Times Book Review
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"Tzili""
"""Tzili"'s steadiness of vision and quiet acceptance of life reduced to an absolute minimum give it a sense of buoyancy the more moving for being apparently effortless."
--"The New York Review of Books
To the Land of the Cattails
""Among us, the writers-survivors, Appelfeld's voice has a unique, unmistakeable tone . . . I am struck with awe and admiration."
--Primo Levi
"The Iron Tracks""
""This tale of reparation and retaliation is art at its highest."
--"The Washington Post
The Conversion
""A work of subtle power, at once a historical novel and a moral parable."
--"The Boston Globe
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Synopsis
The novelist recounts his survival of the Holocaust and his struggle to build a new life on the fragments of his past.
