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Octogenarian wins Indie Foreign Fiction Prize

Publication Date: Tue, 15/05/2012 - 09:00

Octogenarian Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel, published by Alma Books, which is based on his experiences during the Holocaust.

Blooms of Darkness is told from the perspective of 11-year-old Hugo, who is taken in by Mariana, a prostitute, to keep him safe as Jewish...

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