Tap cover to enlarge

The Town Beyond the Wall

Published
May 1964
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
179

About This Book

Michael—a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp survivor—makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to the town of his birth in Hungary. He returns to find and confront "the face in the window"—the real and symbolic faces of all those who stood by and never interfered when the Jews of his town were deported. In an ironic turn of events, he is arrested and imprisoned by secret police as a foreign agent. Here he must confront his own links to humanity in a world still resistant to the lessons of the Holocaust.

Genres & Themes

Buy This Book

Formats & Editions

Browse the different covers, formats, and publication history for this title.

Paperback

Paperback edition cover
Trade Paperback
Sep 1987 Knopf ISBN 0805206973
Buy
Paperback edition cover
Trade Paperback
Jun 1995 Knopf ISBN 0805210458
Buy

Hardcover

Hardcover edition cover
Hardcover
May 1964 Henry Holt ISBN 0030662559
Buy