Aharon Appelfeld - Novels, Lectures & a Memoir (16 books)

AHARON APPELFELD (b. 1932) is one of Israel's foremost living Hebrew-language authors, despite the fact that he did not learn the language until he was a teenager. His mother tongue is German but he chose Hebrew as his literary vehicle for its precision, succinctness and biblical imagery.

In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian Army retook his hometown after a year of Soviet occupation and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a Nazi concentration camp. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet army as a cook. After World War II, Appelfeld spent several months in a displaced persons camp in Italy before immigrating to Palestine in 1946,

Most of his work focuses on Jewish life in Europe before, during and after World War II, but it is not simple autobiography. Silence, muteness and stuttering are motifs that run through much of his work, and disability often becomes a source of strength and power. Philip Roth, writing in the New York Times, described Appelfeld as "a displaced writer of displaced fiction, who has made of displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own."

His many literary honors include the Bialik Prize (1979), the Israel Prize (1983), and the National Jewish Book Award for fiction (1989).


The following books are in ePUB or PDF format as noted:

* ALL WHOM I HAVE LOVED (Schocken, 2007). Translated by Aloma Halter. -- ePUB

* BADENHEIM 1939 (Godine, 1980). Translated by Dalya Bilu. -- PDF

* BEYOND DESPAIR: Three Lectures and a Conversation with Philip Roth (Fromm, 1994). -- PDF

* BLOOMS OF DARKNESS (Schocken, 2010). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- ePUB

* THE CONVERSION (Schocken, 1998). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* FOR EVERY SIN (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* THE HEALER (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS (Harper & Row, 1988). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* THE IRON TRACKS (Schocken, 1998). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* KATERINA (Schocken, 1992). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- ePUB

* THE RETREAT (Penguin, 1985). Translated by Dalya Bilu. -- PDF

* THE STORY OF A LIFE: A Memoir (Schocken, 2004). Translated by Aloma Halter. -- ePUB

* SUDDENLY, LOVE (Schocken, 2014). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- ePUB

* TO THE LAND OF THE CATTAILS (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- PDF

* TZILI: The Story of a Life (Schocken, 2011). Translated by Dalia Bilu. -- ePUB

* UNTIL THE DAWN'S LIGHT (Schocken, 1992). Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. -- ePUB