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Katerina

A Novel

A Novel

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

Category: Literary Fiction

Category: Literary Fiction

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Feb 07, 2006 | 224 Pages

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Sep 23, 2009 | 224 Pages

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    About Katerina

    Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in separate pogroms and the children are taken away by relatives. She finds work with other Jewish families, all of whom are subjected to relentless persecution by their neighbors. When the beloved child she had with her Jewish lover is murdered, Katerina kills the murderer and is sent to prison. Released from prison years later, in the chaos following the end of World War II, a now elderly Katerina is devastated to find a world that has been emptied of its Jews and that is not at all sorry to see them gone. Ever the outsider, Katerina realizes that she has survived only to bear witness to the fact that these people had ever existed at all.

    About Katerina

    Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in separate pogroms and the children are taken away by relatives. She finds work with other Jewish families, all of whom are subjected to relentless persecution by their neighbors. When the beloved child she had with her Jewish lover is murdered, Katerina kills the murderer and is sent to prison. Released from prison years later, in the chaos following the end of World War II, a now elderly Katerina is devastated to find a world that has been emptied of its Jews and that is not at all sorry to see them gone. Ever the outsider, Katerina realizes that she has survived only to bear witness to the fact that these people had ever existed at all.

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    About Aharon Appelfeld

    AHARON APPELFELD is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn’s Light (both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger),… More about Aharon Appelfeld

    About Aharon Appelfeld

    AHARON APPELFELD is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn’s Light (both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger),… More about Aharon Appelfeld

    Product Details

    Paperback | $13.00
    Published by Schocken
    Feb 07, 2006 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780805211986

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Schocken
    Sep 23, 2009 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307486707

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    Praise

    “Read this book . . . Think what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is.”
    —Anne Roiphe, Los Angeles Times

    “Appelfeld reimagines the place of his own origins through a perspective that in its generosity of feeling recalls Tolstoy and Chekhov.”
    —Judith Grossman, The New York Times Book Review

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