All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel

All Whom I Have Loved: A Novel

All Whom I Have Loved is the haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable nine-year-old boy. The beloved only child of divorced parents, Paul watches helplessly as his family and his world dissolve around him. At first he lives with his motherâ€”a secular, assimilated schoolteacher, whom he adores until she â€œbetraysâ€ him by marrying a gentile. Heâ€™s then sent to live with his fatherâ€”once an admired avant-garde artist, but now reviled by the critics as a â€œdecadent Jew,â€ who drowns his anger, pain, and humiliation in drink. Paul searches in vain for a life of stability and meaning. The earthy peasant girl who briefly takes care of him, the pull he feels toward the Jews praying in the local synagogue, and his fascination with Eastern Orthodox church rituals give him only tantalizing glimpses into worlds of which he can never be a part.
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The fates that Paulâ€™s parents will meet with Paul as terrified witness, and his own fate as an orphaned Jewish child alone in Europe in 1938, are rendered by Aharon Appelfeld with extraordinary subtlety and power, as they foreshadow, in the heart-wrenching story of three individuals, the cataclysm that is about to engulf all of European Jewry.
Country USA
Brand Schocken
Manufacturer Schocken
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2015-03-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780805211252

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