{"product_id":"unto-the-soul-isbn-9780805210972","title":"Unto the Soul","description":"In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from their people and tradition. Escape--from loneliness, from wavering piety, and from the burgeoning desire they feel for one another--becomes impossible. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA parable for our times, by the writer whom Irving Howe called \"one of the best novelists alive,\" \u003ci\u003eUnto the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the deepest stirrings of religious feeling and despair within the human soul.\"Reconfirms the widespread view that he is one of the most subtle, uncompromising, and concentrated stylists of contemporary prose fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAHARON APPELFELD\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn's Light \u003c\/i\u003e(both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Life\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger), and \u003ci\u003eBadenheim 1939\u003c\/i\u003e. Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award. \u003ci\u003eBlooms of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304354140389,"sku":"NP9780805210972","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780805210972.jpg?v=1767743308","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/unto-the-soul-isbn-9780805210972","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}