Katerina

Aharon , Appelfeld


anglais | 15-08-2024 | 192 pages

9780241681190

Livre de poche


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'Read this book . . . what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is' Los Angeles Times

Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish family, finding safety in their warmth and rituals. When a pogrom is wrought upon the family, she is alone again. Decades later, having suffered and retaliated for that suffering, an elderly Katerina is released from prison at the end of World War Two, and is devastated to find a world emptied of its Jews. Ever the outsider, she realizes that she has survived only to bear witness to the fact they ever existed at all. Described by Aharon Appelfeld as being 'about what is inseparable from me', this extraordinary novel tells, with moving simplicity, the story of a people; of life's horror and beauty.

'Appelfeld reimagines the place of his own origins through a perspective that in its generosity of feeling recalls Tolstoy and Chekhov' The New York Times Book Review

Translated by Jeffrey M. Green

Note biographique

Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Médicis étranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.

Détails

Code EAN :9780241681190
Auteur(trice): 
Editeur :Penguin Books Ltd (UK)-Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Traduit par : Jeffrey M. , Green
Date de publication :  15-08-2024
Format :Livre de poche
Langue(s) : anglais
Hauteur :196 mm
Largeur :128 mm
Epaisseur :15 mm
Poids :150 gr
Stock :à commander
Nombre de pages :192
Collection :  Penguin Modern Classics
Mots clés :  penguin modern classics; plays; family; the reader; the book thief; anne frank; diary of a young girl; tattooist of auschwitz; europe; judaism; jewish; shoah; twentieth century; modern classics; classic literature; classic books; classic; classics; israeli; israel; history; art spiegelman; maus; john boyne; boy in the striped pajamas; night; elie wiesel; if this is a man; primo levi; concentration camp; wwii; world war ii; nazi; auschwitz; holocaust; ww2; inspirational; germany; ukraine; nazism; european history; survival; world war 2; translation; coming of age