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FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ Funeral Games, Mary Renault ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
...WONDERS by Aharon Appelfeld Translated by Dalya Bilu Godine; 270 pages...
...second novel to be translated into English, Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld, 49, portrays the arrival of the great evil that became the Holocaust as a series of incremental tremors. Anti-Semitism first manifests itself as that petty annoyance on the train, "bureaucracy gone mad" as one passenger reassures another. Then Bruno's elaborate twelfth birthday party is sobered by the arrival of an actress-relative who has been fired by the National Theater because she is Jewish. The shy young guest of honor watches the adults argue over whether there is truly cause for worry: "Words...
...meantime, the man who had become Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Aharon Abuhatzeira, was facing charges of theft, fraud and violation of public trust, allegedly committed, while he served as mayor of Ramie, near Tel Aviv, in the 1970s. Any of these relatively minor political difficulties within Begin's fragile coalition could be sufficient, in the end, to jolt him from power...
...happened, the Begin government's unbecoming exit was even accompanied by a last-minute scandal. The Knesset voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Cabinet Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira, head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, so that he could face criminal indictment. Abuhatzeira had been under investigation for months as an alleged recipient of bribes in return for having funneled government funds to phantom religious institutions...