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BOOKS: Out of the ashes, a memoir of love; The Story of a Life By Aharon Appelfeld, trans Aloma Halter HAMISH HAMILTON pounds 14.99 (198pp) pounds 13.99 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897.(Features)
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Byline: Carole Angier
As any Holocaust archive will attest, many survivors are only now telling their tales. Even writers have waited " especially in Israel, where the wounds are deepest. Last year we had Amos Oz's story of growing up among survivors, A Tale of Love and Darkness; now we have Aharon Appelfeld's survivor's memoir.
It was worth waiting. Oz's autobiography is one of his finest works, and so now is Appelfeld's. This small book is as moving as the children in it: Appelfeld himself, aged 10, on a forced march through the Ukrainian mud; the 'joyful child' Helga, ...
