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The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld

The Conversion

A novel

A novel

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

By Aharon Appelfeld

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Dec 14, 1999 | 240 Pages

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    About The Conversion

    Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl’s future looks bright, but with his promotion comes a political crisis that turns his conversion into a baptism by fire, unexpectedly reuniting Karl with his past and forcing him to take a stand he could never have imagined.

    About The Conversion

    Our story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl’s future looks bright, but with his promotion comes a political crisis that turns his conversion into a baptism by fire, unexpectedly reuniting Karl with his past and forcing him to take a stand he could never have imagined.

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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), and Badenheim 1939. Other honors he has… 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), and Badenheim 1939. Other honors he has… More about Aharon Appelfeld

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Schocken
    Dec 14, 1999 | 240 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780805210989

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Schocken
    Nov 02, 2016 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780805243468

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    Praise

    "A work of subtle power, at once a historical novel and a moral parable. [Appelfeld] creates an atmosphere charged with ethical significance, painting characters whose feelings are intricate and idiosyncratic, yet resonate sadly and sweetly within us all." —The Boston Globe

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