Katerina

The book ‘Katerina’ is written by Aharon Appelfeld. It is a novel and the story is about a teenage peasant, Katerina, in Ukraine in the 1880s. In the story, she is adopted by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. The book analyzes her life journey, the trauma of losing her adopted family to pogroms, her life with other Jewish families, and her time in prison.