{"product_id":"suddenly-love-9780805212464","title":"Suddenly Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project. --Philip Gourevitch, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eErnst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he divorced his shrewish second wife) and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, is the unmarried daughter of Holocaust survivors who has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier; she arrives every morning promptly at eight and usually leaves every afternoon at three. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst’s intellect. And as the months\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schocken Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527736303959,"sku":"9780805212464","price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805212464.jpg?v=1731869038","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suddenly-love-9780805212464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}