Books by Aharon Appelfeld
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review 1: 11 year old Hugo's mother gives him to her high school friend to hide him. Mariana is a whore servicing Nazi soldiers who constantly jeopardizes her job by drunkenly refusing to do some of the demands of her customers. But she loves her "puppy", Hugo, whom she hides in her clos...
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review 1: This Israeli novel set in WW2 Ukraine is the story of young Hugo, whose mother leaves him with her childhood friend as the Nazis round up the Jew in the ghetto. The friend, now a prostitute, protects Hugo as she plies her occupation with the German soldiers. Their relationship ...
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review 1: In spite of some reservations I have as to the reality of certain descriptions and situations, which at times I felt were flat and made it difficult to fully immersed and believe in the story being told, I was finally won over. It is a unique, well... "love story" between a matur...