EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Get away from it allβ¦*and* have it all! ** Journalist Jennifer Dale is on assignment, pretending that miserable isolation in upstate New York is the greatest thing ever. The only bright spot? The wickedly sexy recluse across the lake, who swims in the buff. Now, *there's* some wi
Long Summer Nights
β Scribed by Aharon Appelfeld
- Book ID
- 101187244
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1609808991
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β¦ Synopsis
The second and last children's book by the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and Hebrew-language author of the award-winning Adam & Thomas.
A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers, an eleven-year-old boy and an old man to whom the boy has been entrusted by his father, a Jew, fleeing the ravages of the war by the late award winning author, Aharon Appelfeld. The old man is a former Ukranian commander, revered by the soldiers under his command, who has gone blind and chosen the life of a wanderer as his last spiritual adventure. The child, now disguised as a Ukranian non-Jew, learns from the old man how to fend for himself and how to care for others. In the tradition of The Alchemist , the travelers learn from each other and the boy grows stronger and wiser as the old man teaches him the art of survival and, through the stories he shares, the reasons for living. Long Summer Nights carries its magic not only in the words, but also in the...
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