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The Conversion

A novel

Aharon Appelfeld

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Random House Inc
14 December 1999
Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl's future looks bright, but with his promotion comes a political crisis that turns his conversion into a baptism by fire, unexpectedly reuniting Karl with his past and forcing him to take a stand he could never have imagined.
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Imprint:   Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   283g
ISBN:   9780805210989
ISBN 10:   0805210989
Pages:   240
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

AHARON APPELFELDis the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, includingThe Iron Tracks, Untilthe Dawn'sLight(both winners of the National Jewish Book Award),The Story of a Life(winner of the Prix Medicis tranger), andBadenheim 1939. Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award.Blooms of Darknesswon the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.

Reviews for The Conversion: A novel

A work of subtle power, at once a historical novel and a moral parable. [Appelfeld] creates an atmosphere charged with ethical significance, painting characters whose feelings are intricate and idiosyncratic, yet resonate sadly and sweetly within us all. --<i>The Boston Globe</i>


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