This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
English translation copyright © 2020 by Schocken Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Israel as Ad Khod Hatza’ar by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir Publishing House Ltd., Or Yehuda, in 2012. Copyright © 2012 by Aharon Appelfeld and Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir Publishing House Ltd.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Appelfeld, Aharon, author. Schoffman, Stuart, translator.
Title: To the edge of sorrow / Aharon Appelfeld; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
Other titles: ʻAd ḥod ha-tsaʻar. English.
Description: First edition. New York: Schocken Books, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019011548. ISBN 9780805243420 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN 9780805243437 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Jewish soldiers—Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PJ5054.A755 A62513 2019 | DDC 892.43/6—dc23 | LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2019011548
Ebook ISBN 9780805243437
Cover photograph by Ildiko Neer/Arcangel Images
Cover design by Linda Huang
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