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About Aharon Appelfeld
See more books from this AuthorHis reunion with Gloria, and his chastened gratitude for her devotion to his loved ones (“She had absorbed their lives fully while he was merely a drifter in their world”), unite the two and show Karl a pathway back to his origins when an injustice orchestrated by the government he serves (the ab...
| Read Full Review of The Conversion : A NovelAlthough the Holocaust is never mentioned (nor are years and dates), it is ever-present--and directly prefigured in the tragic finale, when Karl and his former housemaid, Gloria, an observant Jew with whom he is reunited and falls in love, are murdered by anti-Semitic peasants.
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