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Katerina
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Jeffrey M. Green (trans) and
Aron Appelfeld
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Schocken Books
Publication date
February 7, 2006
Pages
212
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780805211986
ISBN-10
0805211985
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$13.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the familyâs customs and rituals into her own Christian observances, Katerina is traumatized when the parents are murdered in separate pogroms and the children are taken away by relatives. She finds work with other Jewish families, all of whom are subjected to relentless persecution by their neighbors. When the beloved child she had with her Jewish lover is murdered, Katerina kills the murderer and is sent to prison. Released from prison years later, in the chaos following the end of World War II, a now elderly Katerina is devastated to find a world that has been emptied of its Jews and that is not at all sorry to see them gone. Ever the outsider, Katerina realizes that she has survived only to bear witness to the fact that these people had ever existed at all.
Editions
Hardcover
from Random House Inc (September 1, 1992)
9780679406105 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $18.00
About: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty
About: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Schocken Books (February 7, 2006)
9780805211986 | details & prices | 212 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $13.00
About: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty.
About: As each of her employers disappears or is murdered, Katerina, a Gentile domestic servant working in a series of Jewish households in the years before the Holocaust, is repeatedly forced into a life of privation and spiritual poverty.
from W W Norton & Co Inc (February 1, 1994)
9780393311105 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $11.00
About: As an old woman, a gentile peasant from the Ukraine reminisces about the most touching and cruel events in her life: leaving home at an early age; working as a housekeeper in a Jewish household; learning to love the family--and, moreso, their beliefs--and the pain she ultimately endures because of that love.
About: As an old woman, a gentile peasant from the Ukraine reminisces about the most touching and cruel events in her life: leaving home at an early age; working as a housekeeper in a Jewish household; learning to love the family--and, moreso, their beliefs--and the pain she ultimately endures because of that love.
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