To the Land of the Cattails (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: 1938-1940
- Setting: En route between Austria and Bukovina
- Genres: Long fiction, Holocaust literature
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Race, Religion, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Austria or Austrians, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism
- Locales: Austria, Bukovina
Characters Discussed
Toni Strauss, née Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman who was divorced by her gentile husband when she was only twenty years old; they had been married three years. A dark, beautiful woman, she has had many lovers. A year after an elderly lover dies and leaves her a legacy, Toni decides that she and her son must return to her birthplace. She is short on education and academic knowledge, which leads her son to think that she is a stupid woman, yet people fall in love with her wherever she goes. Toni almost dies of typhus when they are in Buszwyn. Throughout the book,...
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