LEADER 03481oam 2200589 450 001 9910160353403321 005 20210112130459.0 010 $a0-8052-4320-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001025462 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6107317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6107317 035 $a(OCoLC)1155953157 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001025462 100 $a20160804d2017 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe man who never stopped sleeping $ea novel /$fAharon Appelfeld ; Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green 205 $aFirst American edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cSchocken Books,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) 311 $a0-8052-4319-4 330 $a"Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of young boys being trained in both body and mind for their new lives in Palestine. The fog of sleep gradually lifts, and when he and his comrades arrive in Haifa, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to the land and how to speak their new language. But a part of Erwin desperately clings to the past--to memories of his parents and other relatives, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was born--and he knows that who he was is just as important as who he is now becoming. When he is wounded while on night patrol, Erwin must spend long months recovering from multiple surgeries and trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved father had failed. With the support of his friends and of other survivors, and with the ever-present memory of his mother to spur him on, Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches--and with his pen"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJewish men$vFiction 606 $aHolocaust survivors$vFiction$9lat$2NLI 606 $aSleep$vFiction$9lat$2NLI 606 $aDreams$vFiction$9lat$2NLI 606 $aBiographical fiction, Israeli$9lat$2NLI 606 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)$9lat$2NLI 606 $aJewish refugees$vFiction 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zEurope$vFiction 606 $aHebrew fiction$vTranslations into English 615 0$aJewish men 615 7$aHolocaust survivors 615 7$aSleep 615 7$aDreams 615 7$aBiographical fiction, Israeli 615 7$aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aJewish refugees 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 7$aHebrew fiction 676 $a892.43/6 686 $aFIC019000$aFIC046000$aFIC041000$2bisacsh 700 $aApelfeld$b Aharon$01080446 702 $aGreen$b Yaacov Jeffrey 801 0$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160353403321 996 $aThe man who never stopped sleeping$92593545 997 $aUNINA