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The Iron Tracks

The Iron Tracks

Appelfeld, Aharon

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0805210997
ISBN13: 9780805210996
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 16 1999
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind?

Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called one of the best novelists alive today.

Ever since he was released from a concentration camp forty years earlier, Erwin Siegelbaum has been obsessively riding the trains of postwar Austria. His days are filled with drink, his nights with brief love affairs and the torments of his nightmares. What keeps him sane is his mission to collect the menorahs, kiddush cups, and holy books that have survived their vanished owners. And the hope that one day he will find the Nazi officer who murdered his parents--and have the strength to kill him.

A haunting exploration of one survivor's complex, wrenching, inner world, The Iron Tracks is distinguished by the depth of insight and the distinctively stark, elegant style that have won Aharon Appelfeld recognition as one of the world's great writers.

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