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The Retreat

The Retreat

Appelfeld, Aharon

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0805210962
ISBN13: 9780805210965
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 20 1998
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.17 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
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.

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