Parentland

"Appelfeld presents another masterpiece." (NZZ). After years of hesitation, Jakob Fein decides to travel from Israel to the land of his fathers: the Polish village where his parents survived the Holocaust. On their tracks he roams the landscape and gets to know the people. By chance he meets Magda, who can still remember his parents. The stories of the Catholic farmer's wife lead him back to the past. The two fall in love. But the longer Jakob stays in the village, the more he must learn that the old prejudices are still alive. Painfully, he begins to understand his parents' story better. "Aharon Appelfeld is an important witness of the past century. He is one of the great Jewish narrators of Eastern Europe." (IMRE KERTÉSZ).