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The Retreat by Aharon Appelfeld [Appelfeld, Aharon] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Retreat about?
The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act—in short, how to pass—as a gentile. But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel's patrons, men and women who are necessarily—and horrifically—blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, The Retreat is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."
Who reads The Retreat?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Aharon Appelfeld [Appelfeld, Aharon]
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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