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A hotel called "The Retreat" teaches its Jewish patrons how to look, talk, and act like Gentiles

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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."
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"Appelfeld is one of the greatest writers of the age."
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"With his stark, swift prose, Appelfeld creates a vision that is both disturbing and elegiac . . . a devastating new classic in Holocaust literature."
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  • PublisherPenguin Books
  • Publication date1985
  • ISBN 10 0140076603
  • ISBN 13 9780140076608
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages164
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