lost world of unspoken horrors: Aharon Appelfeld's Holocaust Universe

This volume offers a close reading of five novels by Aharon Appelfeld (1982-2018). The essays are a tribute to a prolific writer who, for more than four decades, won international acclaim for his subtle enigmatic novels, which shimmer with premonitions of the unimaginable horror to come. Full of lucid insights, the deeply reflective study demonstrates how Appelfeld's stories, usually set in the years immediately before and after the destruction of European Jewry, transform memory into fiction and encase within their midst unfathomable depths in the search for meaning and healing.