Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Blooms of Darkness (Hebrew: פרחי האפלה, Pirhei HaAfela) is a 2006 novel by the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. The narrative follows an 11-year-old Jewish boy who stays with a prostitute in a Ukrainian ghetto during World War II. Appelfeld said that with the book, he "wanted to explore the darkest places of human behavior and to show that even there, generosity and love can survive; that humanity and love can overcome cruelty and brutality". The novel, translated by Jeffrey M. Green won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012.. }
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- Blooms_of_Darkness abstract "Blooms of Darkness (Hebrew: פרחי האפלה, Pirhei HaAfela) is a 2006 novel by the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. The narrative follows an 11-year-old Jewish boy who stays with a prostitute in a Ukrainian ghetto during World War II. Appelfeld said that with the book, he "wanted to explore the darkest places of human behavior and to show that even there, generosity and love can survive; that humanity and love can overcome cruelty and brutality". The novel, translated by Jeffrey M. Green won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012.".