The Healer

The Healer - Appelfeld, Aharon

Paperback (19 May 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The eighth of Aharon Appelfeld's brilliantly original novels to be published in English, The Healer is a remarkable story about faith and faithlessness among European Jews on the eve of World War II. Felix Katz is a Viennese businessman whose life is choked by suppressed rage and intolerance for those who have faith. When conventional methods fail to cure his daughter's emotional illness, Felix in desperation agrees to travel with his family to the Carpathian Mountains in search of a famous healer. Months later, after being snowbound in a rural Jewish village that sustains itself on faith, Felix returns to a Vienna plagued by the disease of anti-Semitism. The Healer wonderfully combines elements of fable with the complex sensibility of a great modernist writer sensitive to the overbearing moral issues of our time.

Book information

ISBN: 9780802133571
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Imprint: Grove Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 254g
Height: 139mm
Width: 266mm
Spine width: 12mm