{"product_id":"the-retreat-isbn-9780805210965","title":"The Retreat","description":"The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all \"Jewish traits,\" it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in short, how to pass--as a gentile. But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel's patrons, men and women who are necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, \u003ci\u003eThe Retreat\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called \"one of the best novelists alive.\"\"Appelfeld in one of the greatest writers of the age.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With his stark, swift prose, Appelfeld creates a vision that is both disturbing and elegiac . . . a devastating new classic in Holocause literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\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 Dalya Bilu","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302491050213,"sku":"NP9780805210965","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780805210965.jpg?v=1767741222","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-retreat-isbn-9780805210965","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}