Badenheim, 1939 (Everyman Fiction) - Softcover

(Every summer Jewish holiday-makers flock to the picturesque resort town of Badenheim, to sample the delicious cream cakes and to enjoy the music of Dr. Pappenheim's band. 1939 seems no different from any other year - except perhaps for the stange 'Sanitation Inspectors' with their annoying questions and regulations. But gradually the town becomes unpleasantly - inexplicably - overcrowded and its festive atmosphere changes to one of suppressed hysteria)