Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land of the Cattails, Appelfeld tells the story of Bartfuss, enigmatically "the immortal" because of his experience in the camps. Now locked in a hopeless marriage, Bartfuss struggles to suppress the emotions and recollections he fears and despises, while trying to keep alive the poise, dignity, and compassion essential to a human being. The Immortal Bartfuss is an overwhelming and unforgettable study of a man reduced to his tragic limits.

The Immortal Bartfuss

Literature & Fiction

aharon-appelfeld

History & Criticism

Perennial / HarperCollins

Aharon Appelfeld was the child of middle-class Jewish parents living in Romania at the outbreak of World War II. He witnessed the murder of his mother, lost his father, endured the ghetto and a two-month forced march to a camp, before he escaped. Living off the land in the forests of Ukraine for two years before making the long journey south to Italy and eventually Israel and freedom, Appelfeld finally found a home in which he could make a life for himself. Acclaimed writer Appelfeld's extraordinary and painful memoir of his childhood and youth is a compelling account of a boy coming of age in a hostile world.

The Story of a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumours of war rumble into the resort town, but the characters struggle to convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal

Badenheim 1939

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Badenheim 1939 (Penguin Modern Classics)

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

Katerina

Katerina (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Story of a Life (Penguin Modern Classics)

A Jewish writer under the pressures of pre-World War II Austrian anti-Semitism falls to pieces in a narration provided by his son, who returns to his father's town thirty years later

The age of Wonders

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

For Every Sin

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

<p>As an old woman, a gentile peasant from the Ukraine reminisces about the most touching and cruel events in her life: leaving home at an early age; working as a housekeeper in a Jewish household; learning to love the family--and, moreso, their beliefs--and the pain she ultimately endures because of that love.</p>

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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