{"product_id":"the-conversion-paperback-1","title":"The Conversion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAharon Appelfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Karl and his friends, Judaism is an obstacle that is easily discarded in their turn-of-the-century world. But as a political crisis unfolds, he rekindles a love affair that will force him to take a stand he could never have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur story opens in an Austrian city, two generations before the Holocaust, where almost all of the Jews have converted to Christianity. Today the church bells are pealing for Karl, an ambitious young civil servant whose conversion will clear his path to a coveted high government post. Karl's future looks bright, but with his promotion comes a political crisis that turns his conversion into a baptism by fire, unexpectedly reuniting Karl with his past and forcing him to take a stand he could never have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAHARON APPELFELD\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Iron Tracks, Until the Dawn's Light \u003c\/i\u003e(both winners of the National Jewish Book Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Life\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger), and \u003ci\u003eBadenheim 1939\u003c\/i\u003e. Other honors he has received include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award. \u003ci\u003eBlooms of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012 and was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine), in 1932, he died in Israel in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.62 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47265458225401,"sku":"9780805210989","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tSIOmZi8I89780805210989_8011e216-7c02-4877-86cb-309b2b005d85.webp?v=1768843269","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-conversion-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}