{"product_id":"badenheim-1939-9781567928808","title":"Badenheim 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The greatest novel of the Holocaust\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA masterpiece of world literature, set in Austria as the Nazis began their rise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is spring 1939. 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 bubbly Frau Tsauberblit; the historian, Dr. Fussholdt, and his much younger wife; the \"readers,\" twins with a passion for Rilke; a child prodigy; a commercial traveler; a rabbi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe list of guests grows longer as the summer goes on. Receiving them in the town are the residents: the pharmacist and his worried wife, the hotelier and his large staff, the pastry shop owner and his irritable baker, Sally and Gertie (two prostitutes), and, mysteriously, the bland inspectors from the \"Sanitation Department.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, the vacationers, whose numbers have now increased by the forced crowding-in of other Jews hardly on vacation, become de facto prisoners in their familiar resort; their \"vacation\" begins to take on the lineaments of undefined disaster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor, and Holocaust survivor, Aharon Appelfeld created a world in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBadenheim 1939\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e that has only gained power for readers since its publication in 1980. Philip Roth called Appelfeld \"a displaced writer of displaced fiction who has made of displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verba Mundi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567928808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152","brand":"Aharon Appelfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933862883509,"sku":"9781567928808","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/badenheim-1939-9781567928808","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}