To the Land of the Cattails (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aharon Appelfeld
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Allegory
- Time of Work: 1938-1940
- Setting: En route between Austria and Bukovina, a region in the border area between Romania and the Ukraine, now Russia
- Principal Characters: Toni Strauss, Rudi Strauss, Arna
- 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
The Novel
To the Land of the Cattails describes the two-year journey of Toni Strauss and her son Rudi Strauss from Austria to Dratscincz in Bukovina, a region in the border area between Romania and the Ukraine, now Russia. Related by a narrator who reveals Toni’s thoughts, the story of the protagonists’ metamorphoses is told by means of episodic events that occur both before and during the allegorical journey from nationalistic assimilation to strong Jewish self-identification.
Made possible by a legacy willed to Toni by her final lover, an old man,...
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