LEADER 03824cam a2200565Mi 4500001 291507 005 20240622101023.0 008 160720s2017 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 2016028875 020 9780805243192 |q(hardback) 020 0805243194 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)ocn973984266 035 291507 043 e------ 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hheb 040 B@L |beng |erda |cB@L |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dB@L |dOCL |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 PJ5054.A755 |bI8413 2017 100 1 Apelfeld, Aharon, |eauthor. 245 14 The man who never stopped sleeping : |ba novel / |cAharon Appelfeld ; Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. 250 First American edition. 264 1 New York : |bSchocken Books, |c2017. 300 304 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 Translation of: Ish she-lo pasaḳ li-yeshon. 520 "Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of young boys being trained in both body and mind for their new lives in Palestine. The fog of sleep gradually lifts, and when he and his comrades arrive in Haifa, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to the land and how to speak their new language. But a part of Erwin desperately clings to the past--to memories of his parents and other relatives, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was born--and he knows that who he was is just as important as who he is now becoming. When he is wounded while on night patrol, Erwin must spend long months recovering from multiple surgeries and trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved father had failed. With the support of his friends and of other survivors, and with the ever-present memory of his mother to spur him on, Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches--and with his pen"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jewish men |vFiction. 650 0 Jewish youth |vFiction. 650 0 Jewish refugees |vFiction. 650 0 Young men |vFiction. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |zEurope |vFiction. 650 6 Hommes juifs |0(CaQQLa)201-0398612 |vRomans, nouvelles, etc. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 Jeunesse juive |0(CaQQLa)201-0011659 |vRomans, nouvelles, etc. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 Réfugiés juifs |0(CaQQLa)201-0013935 |vRomans, nouvelles, etc. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 Jeunes hommes |0(CaQQLA)201-0008672 |vRomans, nouvelles, etc. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 7 Jewish men. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00982850 650 7 Jewish refugees. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01730523 650 7 Jewish youth. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983095 650 7 Young men. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01183263 651 7 Europe. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01245064 647 7 World War |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 7 Fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 War fiction. |2lcgft 655 7 Fiction. |2lcgft 700 1 Green, Yaacov Jeffrey, |etranslator. 852 0 |bscstacks |hPJ5054.A755 |iI8413 2017