The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

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The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

by Aharon Appelfeld

Genre: Nonfiction

Published: 2017

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From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author ("One of the greatest writers of the age"—The Guardian): a young Holocaust survivor takes his first steps toward creating a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and made their way to the shores of Naples,where they filled refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of boys being rigorously trained both physically and mentally by an emissary from Palestine for life in their new home. The fog of sleep slowly begins to lift, and when Erwin and his fellow clandestine immigrants are released by British authorities from the detention camp in Atlit, he and his comrades are assigned to a kibbutz, where they...

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