CAMPODIMELEIn questo periodo sono fortunato, oppure scelgo bene: da un po’ di tempo a questa parte leggo solo bei libri. Non ci sono abituato, e mi piace.Sono frammenti di memoria e riflessioni che Appelfeld (campo di mele in tedesco, la lingua degli assassini di sua madre) deve aver faticato a t...
The setting is eastern Europe during the Holocaust. This small book sets a powerful mood- it puts you in another world where all that is familiar has come undone and the only real thing at stake is to try to keep body and soul together amidst constant uncertainty. Tzili is a skinny mite of a girl...
Having been blown away by Appelfeld's The Conversion, I bought a few more of his books - All Whom I Have Loved being one of them. It's similar to The Conversion in some ways: a pre-Holocaust Europe setting, anti-Semitism, and a great deal of sadness and death. However, there are many differences ...
Blanca, born Jewish in pre-war Germany, converts to Christianity with the approval of her parents who are themselves alienated from Judaism, in order to marry a caricatured brute named Adolf. When the novel begins Blanca is on the run with her young son after a catastrophic event, going North, go...