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The Retreat - Couverture souple

Appelfeld, Aron

 
9780704334878: The Retreat
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0704334879 ISBN 13 : 9780704334878
Editeur : Quartet Books, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Aron Appelfeld

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The 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."

Revue de presse

"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

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Éditeur
Quartet Books
Date d'édition
1985
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0704334879
ISBN 13 
9780704334878
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
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Personne responsable
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