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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld

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  This slender yet luminously beautiful novel opens on the brink of WWII as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim for what they intend to be an idyllic summer. As rumours of war begin to creep into the town, Appelfeld's wonderfully drawn characters fight to maintain a calm exterior. Highly recommended.

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  Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld

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  Philip Roth deems Aharon Appelfeld to be 'fiction's foremost chronicler of the Holocaust'. His latest novel, Blooms of Darkness, depicts the unlikely friendship between an eleven-year-old boy and an unhappy prostitute who agrees to hide him from the Nazis. Out of the depths of unfathomable tragedy, there emerges a renewal of life and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. Winner of the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize