The Healer
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Dear Reader,
Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist and a Holocaust survivor. I've read many of his essays in The New Yorker, but have not gotten around to reading this after much too long a time. So I am sending this on a bookcrossing journey because it deserves to be read. May this book have a good journey. I'll find it again if it's important for me to read it.
Amazon Editorial Review:
The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliantly original novels to be published in English, The Healer is a remarkable story about faith and faithlessness among European Jews on the eve of World War II. Felix Katz is a Viennese businessman whose life is choked by suppressed rage and intolerance for those who have faith. When conventional methods fail to cure his daughter's emotional illness, Felix in desperation agrees to travel with his family to the Carpathian Mountains in search of a famous healer. Months later, after being snowbound in a rural Jewish village that sustains itself on faith, Felix returns to a Vienna plagued by the disease of anti-Semitism. The Healer wonderfully combines elements of fable with the complex sensibility of a great modernist writer sensitive to the overbearing moral issues of our time.
Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist and a Holocaust survivor. I've read many of his essays in The New Yorker, but have not gotten around to reading this after much too long a time. So I am sending this on a bookcrossing journey because it deserves to be read. May this book have a good journey. I'll find it again if it's important for me to read it.
Amazon Editorial Review:
The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliantly original novels to be published in English, The Healer is a remarkable story about faith and faithlessness among European Jews on the eve of World War II. Felix Katz is a Viennese businessman whose life is choked by suppressed rage and intolerance for those who have faith. When conventional methods fail to cure his daughter's emotional illness, Felix in desperation agrees to travel with his family to the Carpathian Mountains in search of a famous healer. Months later, after being snowbound in a rural Jewish village that sustains itself on faith, Felix returns to a Vienna plagued by the disease of anti-Semitism. The Healer wonderfully combines elements of fable with the complex sensibility of a great modernist writer sensitive to the overbearing moral issues of our time.
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In memory of a dear friend, I'm sending this to a good bookcrossing friend.
In memory of a dear friend, I'm sending this to a good bookcrossing friend.
Thank you so very much for sending this book to me! It was so very nice of you. I look forward to reading it!
This is a well-written but disturbing book that seems to say that those who reject their backgrounds are doomed (and perhaps those that accept them are too but not as quickly!) I had never heard of this author and enjoyed reading the novel. Thank you for the RABCK!
