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Title

The man who never stopped sleeping / Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.

Author

Apelfeld, Aharon

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, [2017]

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Additional Authors

Green, Yaacov Jeffrey

Description

288 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of young boys being trained in both body and mind for their new lives in Palestine. The fog of sleep gradually lifts, and when he and his comrades arrive in Haifa, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to the land and how to speak their new language. But a part of Erwin desperately clings to the past--to memories of his parents and other relatives, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was born--and he knows that who he was is just as important as who he is now becoming. When he is wounded while on night patrol, Erwin must spend long months recovering from multiple surgeries and trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved father had failed. With the support of his friends and of other survivors, and with the ever-present memory of his mother to spur him on, Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches--and with his pen"--

Uniform Title

Ish she-lo pasaḳ li-yeshon. English

Alternative Title

Ish she-lo pasaḳ li-yeshon.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Hebrew literature, Modern > Tranlsations into Hebrew
• Jewish men > Fiction
• Jewish youth > Fiction
• Jewish refugees > Fiction
• Young men > Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 > Europe > Fiction

Genre/Form

• War stories
• Fiction
• War fiction
• Historical fiction.

Note

• Translated from the Hebrew.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780805243192
• 0805243194
• 9780805243208 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016028875

OCLC

• 955274842
• SCSB-12742213

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library