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Appelfeld, Aharon
by The Retreat
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0525242376
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242376
- Seller
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About This Item
New York. 1984. Dutton. 1st American Edition. Corners Slightly Bumped,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0525242376. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. 164 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Walter Brooks. keywords: Literature Translated Jewish Israel. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #1044 ISBN: 0525242376.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1044
- Title
- Appelfeld, Aharon
- Author
- The Retreat
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525242376
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242376
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- April 18, 1984
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