This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumours of war rumble into the resort town, but the characters struggle to convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal.

A szerzőről:
Aharon Appelfeld has lived in Israel since 1946. His first published novel, Smoke, appeared in 1962, after he had taught himself to write in Hebrew. Since then he has written many highly acclaimed works of fiction.