Последние издания книг Аарона Аппельфельда

«Квіти пітьми» – вже другий, після «Катерини», роман відомого ізраїльського письменника Агарона Аппельфельда, що виходить в українському перекладі. Події роману розгортаються в рідних для автора Чернівцях і їхніх околицях на тлі Голокосту. Головних героїв двоє: єврейський хлопчик Гуго й українська повія Мар’яна. Досить простий на сюжетному рівні, цей роман здатен підштовхнути читача до аж ніяк не простих роздумів про природу добра і зла, про перше й останнє кохання, про вірність даному слову і про ціну, яку в часи найбільшої пітьми доводиться платити за намагання врятувати бодай одне чуже життя.

From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II.
Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters—escapees from a nearby ghetto—hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes its goals without losing its moral compass. And so when they're not raiding peasants' homes for food and supplies, or training with the weapons taken from the soldiers they have ambushed and killed, the partisans read books of faith and philosophy that they have rescued from abandoned Jewish homes, and they draw strength from the women, the elderly, and the remarkably resilient orphaned children they are protecting. When they hear about the advances being made by the Soviet Army, the partisans prepare for what they know will be a furious attack on their compound by the retreating Germans. In the heartbreaking aftermath, the survivors emerge from the forest to bury their dead, care for their wounded, and grimly confront a world that is surprised by their existence—and profoundly unwelcoming.
Narrated by seventeen-year-old Edmund—a member of the group who maintains his own inner resolve with memories of his parents and their life before the war—this powerful story of Jews who fought back is suffused with the riveting detail that Aharon Appelfeld was uniquely able to bring to his award-winning novels.

«Катерина» – повість про жахливу людську жорстокість і водночас неймовірну людяність. Оповідь у ній ведеться від імені української жінки, життя якої виявляється тісно пов’язаним з євреями. Це своєрідна спроба поглянути на єврейський народ збоку. Після Катастрофи Катерина вважає своїм обов’язком згадати й відновити хоча б частину того світу, що безповоротно зник разом із загибеллю мільйонів ні в чому не винних людей. Це повість про людську близькість і взаєморозуміння всупереч упередженням і стереотипам.

Роман Аарона Аппельфельда, который ребенком пережил Холокост, скрываясь в лесах Украины, во многом соотносится с переживаниями самого писателя. Но свою историю он рассказал в своих воспоминаниях "История жизни", а "Цветы тьмы" — это история еврейского мальчика Хуго, который жил с родителями в маленьком украинском городке, но когда пришли немцы и отца забрали, мать отдала его на попечение своей школьной подруги Марьяны. Марьяна — проститутка, живет в борделе и в чулане за своей комнаткой прячет одиннадцатилетнего Хуго. Ему предстоит учиться и жить воспоминаниями, и осваивать новый, незнакомый мир.

Аарон Аппельфельд, один из самых читаемых израильских авторов, родился в Черновцах. В годы войны скитался по Бессарабии и Буковине, скрываясь от немцев и румын. В пятнадцать лет приехал в Палестину. Живет в Иерусалиме. Основная тема произведений Аппельфельда - непостижимость Холокоста, ужас слепой ненависти к евреям. Многие произведения писателя автобиографичны, в том числе и навеянный воспоминаниями детства роман "Катерина". Это поразительная история украинской крестьянки, рассказанная от ее имени. После смерти матери Катерина покидает родной дом и оказывается в услужении в еврейской семье. Оставаясь христианкой, она привязывается к…

A TABLE FOR ONE is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950s and 1960s, where the scent of the fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture. Appelfeld found that it was only in a cafe - and only in a Jerusalem cafe - that he could write his novels, shaping meaning and wholeness out of the fragments of his painful past. A TABLE FOR ONE is an interchange between one artist and another, father and son, about their city, Jerusalem. It brings together an unknown side of Aharon Appelfeld's writing, with the subtle, haunting paintings of his son, Meir Appelfeld, who studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, and exhibits widely.

In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us–for the first time–the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.

Aharon Appelfeld’s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz in 1941, penned the Jews into a ghetto, and, a few months later, sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father (his mother was killed in the early days of the occupation) miraculously survive, and Aharon, even more miraculously, escapes from the camp shortly after he arrives there.

The next few years of Aharon’s life are both harrowing and heartrending: he hides, alone, in the Ukrainian forests from peasants who are only too happy to turn Jewish children over to the Nazis; he has the presence of mind to pass himself off as an orphaned gentile when he emerges from the forest to seek work; and, at war’s end, he joins the stream of refugees as they cross Europe on their way to displaced persons’ camps that have been set up for the survivors. He observes the full range of personalities in the camps–exploitation exists side by side with compassion–until he manages to get on a ship bound for Palestine. Once there, Aharon attempts to build a new life while struggling to retain the barely remembered fragments of his old life (everyone urges him simply to forget what he had experienced), and he takes his first, tentative steps as a writer. As he begins to receive national attention, Aharon realizes his life’s calling: to bear witness to the unfathomable. In this unforgettable work of memory, Aharon Appelfeld offers personal glimpses into the experiences that resonate throughout his fiction.

How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind?

Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive today."

Ever since he was released from a concentration camp forty years earlier, Erwin Siegelbaum has been obsessively riding the trains of postwar Austria. His days are filled with drink, his nights with brief love affairs and the torments of his nightmares. What keeps him sane is his mission to collect the menorahs, kiddush cups, and holy books that have survived their vanished owners. And the hope that one day he will find the Nazi officer who murdered his parents--and have the strength to kill him.

A haunting exploration of one survivor's complex, wrenching, inner world, The Iron Tracks is distinguished by the depth of insight and the distinctively stark, elegant style that have won Aharon Appelfeld recognition as one of the world's great writers.

Роман одного из самых популярных израильских писателей о трагической судьбе ассимилированного австрийского еврея, всей душой принадлежавшего немецкой культуре и до последней минуты отказывавшегося верить, что его постигнет та же участь, что постигла еврейский народ в период Катастрофы.

Quand la mère d’Adam le conduit dans la forêt, elle promet de venir le chercher le soir même. « Aie confiance, tu connais la forêt et tout ce qu’elle contient », lui dit-elle. Mais comment avoir confiance alors que la guerre se déchaîne, que les rafles se succèdent dans le ghetto et que les enfants juifs sont pourchassés ?
La journée passe.

Adam retrouve Thomas, un garçon de sa classe que sa mère est également venue cacher là. Les deux gamins sont différents et complémentaires : Adam sait grimper aux arbres et se repère dans la forêt comme s’il y était né. Thomas est réfléchi et craintif. À la nuit tombée, les mères ne sont pas revenues. Les enfants s’organisent et construisent un nid dans un arbre. Ils ignorent encore qu’ils passeront de longs mois ainsi, affrontant la faim, la pluie, la neige et le vent, sans oublier les questions essentielles : qu’est-ce que le courage ? Comment parlent les animaux ?
D’où vient la haine ? À quoi sert l’amour ?