Writerscast.com’s David Wilk calls Aharon Appefeld’s Blooms of Darkness a “powerful, majestic and triumphant coming of age novel.” Read more from Wilk’s review and tune in to his interview with Appelfeld.

In a fantastic piece in this Sunday’s (3/21) New York Times Book Review, David Leavitt says the following about Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness, now on sale from Schocken Books:

“Like Anne Frank’s diary—a work to which it will draw justified comparison—Blooms of Darkness, beautifully translated by Jeffrey M. Green, records a brutal process of education. . . . It is in his rendering of the border territory that Hugo and Mariana inhabit that Appelfeld reveals his compassion, his wisdom, and his restraint. . . . Majestic and humane.”

Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness, a “gripping tale of Holocaust survival,” (The Forward ) is now on sale from Schocken Books. Philip Roth calls Appelfeld “fiction’s foremost chronicler of the Holocaust,” and Poets & Writers recently named him one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Authors in the World. In his searing new novel, Appelfeld once again crafts out of the depths of unfathomable tragedy a renewal of life and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.