To the Edge of Sorrow A Novel【電子書籍】[ Aharon Appelfeld ]

＜p＞From "fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust" (Philip Roth), here is a haunting novel about an unforgettable group of Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis during World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fightersーescapees from a nearby ghettoーhide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes its goals without losing its moral compass. And so when they're not raiding peasants' homes for food and supplies, or training with the weapons taken from the soldiers they have ambushed and killed, the partisans read books of faith and philosophy that they have rescued from abandoned Jewish homes, and they draw strength from the women, the elder．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る