AHARON APPELFELD (1932-2018) was an Israeli novelist and short-story writer who is best known for his allegorical novels of the Holocaust.  Although his mother tongue was German and he did not learn Hebrew until he was a teenager, he chose the latter language as his literary vehicle for its precision, succinctness and biblical imagery.  His many literary honors included the Bialik Prize (1979), the Israel Prize (1983), and the National Jewish Book Award for fiction (1989).

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.   His writing elaborate how other marginalized people in Europe -- witches, prostitutes, vagrants, and criminals -- aided refugees, especially children, in their quest to escape state-sanctioned violence.  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."


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


== FICTION ==

* Adam and Thomas (Seven Stories, 2015). Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB
* All Whom I Have Loved (Schocken, 2007).  Aloma Halter, trans. -- ePUB
* Badenheim 1939 (Godine, 1980).  Dalya Bilu, trans. -- PDF
* Blooms of Darkness (Schocken, 2010).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB
* Conversion, The (Schocken, 1998).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB + PDF
* For Every Sin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- PDF
* Healer, The (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- PDF
* Immortal Bartfuss, The (Harper & Row, 1988).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- PDF
* Iron Tracks, The (Schocken, 1998).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB + PDF
* Katerina (Schocken, 1992).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB
* Laish (Schocken, 2009).  Aloma Halter, trans. -- ePUB
* Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping, The (Schocken, 2017).  Jeffrey Green, trans. -- ePUB
* Retreat, The (Penguin, 1985).  Dalya Bilu, trans. -- ePUB + PDF
* Suddenly, Love (Schocken, 2014).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB
* To the Land of the Cattails (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986).  Jeffrey Green, trans. -- PDF
* Tzili: The Story of a Life (Schocken, 2011).  Dalia Bilu, trans. -- ePUB
* Until the Dawn's Light (Schocken, 1992).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB
* Unto the Soul (Schocken, 1994).  Jeffrey M. Green, trans. -- ePUB


== NON-FICTION ==

* Beyond Despair: Three Lectures & a Conversation with Philip Roth (Fromm, 1994) -- PDF
* Story of a Life: A Memoir (Schocken, 2004).  Aloma Halter, trans. -- ePUB

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