The Conversion

For Karl and his friends, Judaism is an obstacle that is easily discarded in their turn-of-the-century world. But as a political crisis unfolds, he rekindles a love affair that will force him to take a stand he could never have imagined.

Author: Aharon Appelfeld, Aron Appelfeld
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: 12/14/1999
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.48w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780805210989

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/30/2000 pg. 24

About the Author
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 received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award. Blooms of Darkness won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.