For Every Sin (English and Hebrew Edition) - Hardcover

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Theo, a Holocaust survivor, just released from the camps, confronts the shattered world he inherits, meets fellow survivors, and faces his own demons as he walks home across Europe

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As in Appelfeld's earlier novels of alienation set during and after the Holocaust ( Badenheim 1939 ; To the Land of the Cattails ), this narrative portrays a man cruelly deprived of will and emotional clarity. Theo, plodding home across Europe after four years in the death camps, is stunned and lifeless, a condition reflected in Appelfeld's deliberately unadorned prose. Remote memories propel Theo toward Baden-bei-Wein--his mother, the chapels they once visited, the cafes and art galleries--and send him scuttling past clusters of refugees who beseech him to stop. He notices neither cold nor hunger, but, yearning for coffee and cigarettes, finally pauses when they are offered and finds himself not many miles from where he began. Like his thoughts, his feet have traveled in circles, pursued by visions he cannot escape. Eventually he understands that he must join those other refugees who "stretch out their hands . . . to the miserable brethren scattered on the deserted roads." At the end of this slim narrative, Theo has tentatively rejoined the company of the survivors, who "can't bring the dead back to life . . . but can at least say 'we're together.' "
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  • PublisherGrove Pr
  • Publication date1989
  • ISBN 10 1555843182
  • ISBN 13 9781555843182
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages168
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