Aharon Appelfeld

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1981
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Badenheim, 1939

    In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious to the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort...

  • The Age of Wonders

    An Israeli returns to Austria, thirty years after the Holocaust, to understand his own father’s fate. “A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous.”—Times Literary SupplementThe secure world of ...

  • Tzili: The Story of a Life

    The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in ...

  • The Retreat

    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...

  • The immortal Bartfuss

    Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land...

  • For Every Sin

    In For Every Sin, Aharon Appelfeld, recounts the moving and unforgettable story of Theo, a young Holocaust survivor struggling to come to terms with his experience. A student when he was first imprisoned, Theo is a young man who has lost his family a...

  • 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...

  • Unto the Soul

    In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, bu...

  • To the Land of the Cattails

    In another aspect of this author's painful foreshadowing of the destiny of European Jews (The Age of Wonders), The Land of the Cattails is the homeland, toward which they are all struggling to return and which, like Kafka's castle, is always several ...



  • The Healer

    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...

  • The Iron Tracks

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

    How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind?

    Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron T...

  • 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...

  • All Whom I Have Loved

    The haunting story of a Jewish family in Eastern Europe in the 1930s that prefigures the fate of the Jews during World War II.At the center is nine-year-old Paul Rosenfeld, the beloved only child of divorced parents, through whose eyes we view a diss...

  • Laish

    A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no...

  • Blooms of Darkness

    The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hat...

  • Suddenly, Love

    "Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caret...

  • Adam and Thomas

    HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor BookWINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish LibrariesFINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book AwardsAdam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive Wo...

  • Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHow does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind? Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a rivet...

  • The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

    A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel.Erwin doesn’t remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they eme...



  • Long Summer Nights

    The second and last children's book by the extraordinary Holocaust survivor and Hebrew-language author of the award-winning Adam & Thomas.A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers, an eleven-year-old boy and an old man to whom the boy ...

  • To the Edge of Sorrow

    From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II. Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determin...

  • Poland, a Green Land

    A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy -- and is completely unprepared for what he finds there.Yaakov Fine’s practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to...

  • The Story of a Life

Award-Winning Books by Aharon Appelfeld

Adam and Thomas
2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Older Readers
The Iron Tracks
1998 National Jewish Book Award -- Fiction
Until the Dawn's Light
2011 National Jewish Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Aharon Appelfeld has published 23 books.

Aharon Appelfeld does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Story of a Life, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim, 1939, was published in November 1981.

No. Aharon Appelfeld does not write books in series.
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