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From award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer called "one of the biggest writers of this" (Guardian) comes this tale of the Holocaust survivor, wounded in body and nature, who needs his first steps toward making a life for himself in the recently established condition of Israel. Erwin doesn't keep in mind much about his quest across Europe following the war finished - with justification. He spent the majority of it asleep, taken by other survivors as they surfaced from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by coach, by pickup truck, by wagon, or on foot to Naples, where they filled up the refugee camps and pondered what was to get of these. As he struggles to remain awake, Erwin becomes part of several young children being trained in both mind and body because of their new lives in Palestine. The fog of sleep gradually lifts, so when he and his comrades get to Israel, they may be assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to land and the way to speak their new terminology. But a part of Erwin frantically clings to the past - to remembrances of his parents and other relatives, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was created - and he is aware of that who he was is just as important as who he's now becoming. When wounded while on night time patrol, Erwin must spend weeks dealing with multiple surgeries and attempting to regain use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his head as well, copying passages from the Bible in his recently acquired Hebrew and working in the courage to set-up his own texts in this terminology both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his much loved father had failed. Using the support of friends and of other survivors, and with the ever-present storage of his mother to spur him on, Erwin needs his first tentative steps along with his crutches - and along with his pen. Once again Aharon Appelfeld mines heart-wrenching personal experience to set-up masterful fiction with a common resonance.
