Prix Les Inrockuptibles Roman étranger 2020 C'est l'été 1938 en Europe centrale. Et comme chaque année ils sont là, sur la rive, en villégiature. Il y a Rosa Klein, qui lit dans les lignes de la main. Mais peut-on se fier à ses prédictions ? Et Karl Koenig, l'&...

Traduit de l'hébreu par Valérie Zenatti Theo Kornfeld a vingt ans lorsqu'il quitte le camp de concentration que ses gardiens viennent d'abandonner à l'approche des Russes. Il n'a qu'un seul but : retrouver la maison familiale. Errant sur les chemins, blessés au plus profond d'eux-mêmes, les déporté...

Traduit de l'hébreu par Valérie Zenatti " Où commence ma mémoire ? Parfois il me semble que ce n'est que vers quatre ans, lorsque nous partîmes pour la première fois, ma mère, mon père et moi, en villégiature dans les forêts sombres et humides des Carpates. D'autres fois il me semble qu'elle a germ...

Traduit de l'hébreu par Valérie Zenatti.Pendant les derniers mois de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des partisans juifs repliés dans une forêt d'Ukraine résistent à l'armée allemande qui les traque. Sous le commandement de leur chef, Kamil, ce groupe composé d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants s'organise ...

In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, awardwinning novelist shares with usyes'>#8211;for the first timeyes'>#8211;the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.Aharon Appelfeldyes'>#8217;s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occu...

A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer (“One of the greatest writers of the age”--The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss. The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is broug...

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (yes'>ldquo;One of the best novelists aliveyes'>rdquo; yes'>mdash;Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.yes'>#160;A high school honor student bound for university and a c...

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 dissolving, increasingly chaotic world. Initially, ...

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 field than with people. And so when her panic-...

Katerina, simple paysanne chrétienne, retourne dans son village natal d'Ukraine soixante ans après son départ. Elle se remémore sa jeunesse, dans les années précédant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, du temps où elle servait chez des juifs. C'est là qu'elle s'ouvrit au monde, cruel et magnifique, et déco...

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Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively, every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from the war by living with a peasant family. She makes secret journ...

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 ...

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author (“One of the greatest writers of the age”--The Guardian): a young Holocaust survivor takes his first steps toward creating a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn’t remember much about his journey across Europe when ...

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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, but that same protective blanket cuts them off from ...

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 include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in sho...

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 place else to go-they are all on a pilgrimage to ...

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 Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one o...