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, act--in short, how to pass--as 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 necessarily--and horrifically--blind to their fate. Mordant, shrewd, and elegantly written, The Retreat is a moving story of people forbidden to retreat from themselves, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive."
- ISBN10 0704334879
- ISBN13 9780704334878
- Publish Date 1 February 1985
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 3 March 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English