THE AGE OF WONDERS by Aharon Appelfeld Translated by Dalya Bilu Godine; 270 pages; $12.95
A boy named Bruno and his mother board a train to return home from a summer holiday. They are evidently well-to-do; their accommodations are first class and their fellow passengers fashionable. One incident mars the trip. The train stops unexpectedly, and the non-Christians aboard are politely asked to get off and show their papers to a local official. Bruno and his mother are among those who obey. Once this is done, the journey resumes. The setting is Austria in the late 1930s.
In his second novel to be...
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