Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
Haggling Presences
By Denis Donoghue
For Every Sin
by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 168 pp., $15.95
The Immortal Bartfuss
by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 137 pp., $15.95
Five Seasons
by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
Doubleday, 359 pp., $19.95
His Daughter
by Yoram Kaniuk, Translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes
Braziller, 293 pp., $17.50
See Under: Love
by David Grossman, Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 458 pp., $22.95
There is an episode in Aharon Appelfeld's The Age of Wonders (1978) in which the main character, Bruno, takes a trip from Jerusalem, where he lives, to Knospen, his birthplace in Austria. Wandering along Habsburg Avenue, he recalls lost people and gone times: father, mother, aunts, uncles, the music teacher Mr. Danzig, the maid Louise. The town itself has hardly changed.
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