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.

[1] The novel, translated by Jeffrey M. Green won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012.

[1] Carole Angier reviewed the book for The Independent, and mentioned two other works which combine the Holocaust and sexuality—The Night Porter and The Kindly Ones—but wrote that Blooms of Darkness is fundamentally different: "Too often, in the others, the sex seems to be the point.

Still, this is a powerful novel and the mood of isolation that pervades the book’s final chapters is particularly haunting.