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Retreat
A novel
The Year and Setting
The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat.
The Hotel and Its Purpose
Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that include lessons in how to look, talk, act--in short, how to pass--as a gentile.
The Context and Conflict
But with Hitler on the march, the possibilities of both assimilation and retreat are quickly fading for the hotel’s patrons, men and women who are necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate.
About the Book
Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, The Retreat is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."
