cover image Badenheim 1939

Badenheim 1939

Aharon Appelfeld. David R. Godine Publisher, $12.95 (148pp) ISBN 978-0-87923-799-8

First published in 1980, Appelfeld's novel depicts a small town outside Vienna whose usual summer vacationers, middle-class Jews, find themselves held prisoner at their own resort on the eve of WWII. (Apr.)