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The Retreat
The Retreat
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The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. 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, actin short, how to passas a gentile. 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 necessarilyand horrificallyblind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written,
is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."