About The Book

Aharon Appelfeld has been counted among “the world’s finest contemporary writers,” and his writing has been described as “complex” and “absorbing” by the Washington Times. In For Every Sin, a 1989 Jewish Book Award Finalist, he recounts the moving and unforgettable story of Theo, a young Holocaust survivor struggling to come to terms with his experience.

A student when he was first imprisoned, Theo is a young man who has lost his family and friends and wants nothing more than to return to his home. In a desperate attempt to escape the pain of the camps, he sets out to walk across Europe, determined to remain alone until he has regained his strength. In the nightmarish world he enters, haunted by images from his past and continually reunited with fellow survivors, he is forced to come face to face with his own demons and the human condition from which he cannot escape.