| #1755760 in Books | David R. Godine | 1980-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 148 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An elusive allegory for the early stages of the Holocaust|By Yaakov Ben Shalom|I had expected to love this book, but I found it both discomfiting and slightly alienating. It tells the story of upper-class Austrian Jews who intend to spend the summer in a spa town (Badenheim), only to find themselves under quarantine before deportation to Poland under mysterious circumstances.|.com |This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumors of war rumble
It is spring 1939 in the age of anxiety. In months Europe will be Hitler's. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as they always have, a sampling of Jewish middle-class life: the impresario Dr. Pappenheim, his musicians, and their conductor; the gay Frau Tsauberblit; the historian, Dr. Fussholdt, and his much younger wife; the "readers," twins whose passion for Rilke is featured on their pr...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Badenheim 1939 | Aron Appelfeld. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
