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...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...