In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us?for the first time?the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.
Aharon Appelfeld?s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz in 1941, penned the Jews into a ghetto, and, a few months later, sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Ahar…
