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008    140801s2014    nyu           000 0 eng  
010      2013039268
020    0805242953 |q(hardback)
020    9780805242959 |q(hardback)
020     |z0805243151 |q(e-book)
020     |z9780805243154 |q(e-book)
035    (OCoLC)ocn828483984
035    239091
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041 1  eng |hheb
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dBDX |dJAG |dJSE |dOCLCO |dJAO |dWIM |dVP@ |dSTF |dIXA |dLHM
050 00 PJ5054.A755 |bP5813 2014
100 1  Apelfeld, Aharon, |eauthor.
240 10 Pitʼom ahavah. |lEnglish
245 10 Suddenly, love : |ba novel / |cAharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green.
250    First American Edition.
264  1 New York : |bSchocken Books, |c[2014]
300    225 pages ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520    "A poignant, heartbreaking new work by "one of the best novelists alive" (Irving Howe)--the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he divorced his shrewish second wife several years ago) and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena is the unmarried thirty-six-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors who has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years ago; she arrives every morning promptly at eight and leaves every afternoon precisely at three. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young woman who runs his house, listens to him read from his work, and occasionally offers a spirited commentary on it. But Ernst's writing gives him no satisfaction, and he is haunted by his godless, communist past; his health, already poor, begins to deteriorate even more. As he becomes mired in depression, Ernst seems to lose the will to live. But he has reckoned without the devoted Irena. As she becomes an increasingly important part of his life--moving into his home, encouraging him in his work, easing his pain--Ernst not only regains his sense of self but realizes, to his amazement, that Irena is in love with him. And, even more astonishing, he discovers that he is in love with her."-- |cProvided by publisher.
546    Translated from the Hebrew.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Older men |vFiction.
650  0 Authors |vFiction.
650  0 Women caregivers |vFiction.
651  0 Israel |vFiction.
655  7 Fiction. |2lcgft
700 1  Green, Yaacov Jeffrey, |etranslator.
852 0   |bstacks |hPJ5054.A755 |iP5813 2014