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Article: "A cafe is not a sentimental place.".(A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem )(Book review)
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- November 1, 2007
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Work Title: "A cafe is not a sentimental place."
Work Author(s): Heather Shaw
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Byline: Heather Shaw
Aharon Appelfeld is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. In A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem (Toby Press, 978-1-59264-197-0, translated by Aloma Halter) Appelfeld leaves behind the themes of horror and displacement that made his name internationally, to write about the cafes of his childhood, the cafes where he wrote his novels, the cafes that were "a port to which all gates of the imagination are open."
I have lived in Jerusalem since the age of fourteen, for almost sixty years. When I ask myself where ...