In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from their people and tradition. Escape--from loneliness, from wavering piety, and from the burgeoning desire they feel for one another--becomes impossible.
A parable for our times, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive," Unto the Soul lays bare the deepest stirrings of religious feeling and despair within the human soul.
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"Reconfirms the widespread view that he is one of the most subtle, uncompromising, and concentrated stylists of contemporary prose fiction."
--Houston Chronicle
"Appelfeld is one of the greatest writers of the age."
--The Guardian (London)
"Neither dark nor light, its melancholy sweetened by the author's purpose, Unto the Soul lingers like an intimate memory."
--The Washington Post
About the Author:
Aharon Appelfeld is the author of eleven internationally acclaimed novels, including The Iron Tracks, Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders, and The Retreat. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679406115
- ISBN 13 9780679406112
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages211
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