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Blooms of darkness / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.

Title
Blooms of darkness / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.
Author
Apelfeld, Aharon
Publication
New York : Schocken Books, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Green, Yaacov Jeffrey
Description
279 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
A haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss. The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where Mariana, one of the prostitutes, has agreed to hide him. As their lives spiral downward, Mariana reaches out for consolation to the boy who is on the cusp of manhood.
Uniform Title
Pirḥe ha-afelah. English
Alternative Title
Pirḥe ha-afelah.
Subject
  • 1939-2099
  • Brothels > Fiction
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Jewish fiction.
  • Fictional Work
  • novels.
  • Fiction
  • Novels
  • Romans.
Note
  • Originally published: Jerusalem : Keter Publishing House Ltd., 2006.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780805242805
  • 0805242805
LCCN
^^2009033532
OCLC
401141198
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library