The Age of Wonders (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Social morality
- Time of Work: 1938-1969
- Setting: Provincial Austria
- Principal Characters: The Son (Bruno), The Mother, The Father, Theresa, Stark, Brum, Louise
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, 1940’s, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Trains, Austria or Austrians, Persecution
- Locales: Austria
The Novel
Book 1, the longer of the novel’s two parts, begins in 1938 on a train carrying a twelve-year-old boy, who serves as narrator and central consciousness, and his mother back to their hometown in provincial Austria. They had been vacationing in an unnamed retreat, quiet, little-known, beautifully located on a lovely riverbank. Mother and son were expelled from this apparent Eden. Aboard the train, the boy recalls, “the feeling that we were doomed seeped through me like a thick liquid.”
Suddenly, the express train makes an unscheduled stop at a...
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