The Retreat A novel
by APPELFELD, AHARONEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-20
Publisher(s): Schocken
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Summary
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 Retreatis a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."
Author Biography
Aharon Appelfeld is the author of eleven internationally acclaimed novels, including <i>The Iron Tracks, Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders,</i> and <i>Unto the Soul.</i> He lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
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