Unto the soul

1st Schocken pbk. ed.

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Author

Aron Appelfeld

Contributions

Green, Yaacov Jeffrey. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Schocken Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Identifiers

ISBN-100805210970
ISBN-139780805210972
Goodreads57846
LibraryThing154489
Library of Congress Control Number97028619

and 2 more

Better World Books9780805210972
Open LibraryOL681966M

Classifications

DDC892.4/36
LCCPJ5054.A755 U94 1998
LCCPJ5054.A755U94 1998

Description

Amalia and Gad, sister and brother, have been bequeathed a terrible honor: to be caretakers of a cemetery of Jewish martyrs set on an isolated mountaintop in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe. The siblings accept this daunting privilege only to battle their fierce loneliness, wavering piety, and a burgeoning lust they feel for each other. In Unto the Soul, Aharon Appelfeld once again explores the sustenance of faith in the wake of tremulous guilt and an ambiguous God. As in his other internationally acclaimed novels, Appelfeld's spiritual themes, spare and elegant prose, and haunting characterizations combine to create fiction of the highest order. Unto the Soul is the work of a master, an author concerned not only with the spirituality of Judaism, but with the everyday survival of Jews in a hostile world. To read Aharon Appelfeld is to join a solemn quest for introspection and understanding.