From the author of the critically acclaimed A Pigeon and a Boy, the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith, and her three loversWhen Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her at
A novel of epic scope and universal themes that chronicles half a century in the life of a family and a nation, from the bestselling Israeli author of The Blue Mountain.
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion. During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still us
Refael Maier is als inspecteur van een waterbedrijf werkzaam in de Negev-woestijn. Hij is de oudste nog levende man van zijn familie. Zijn vader, grootvader en beide ooms zijn op jonge leeftijd omgekomen bij ongelukken. Refael is opgegroeid bij 'de grote
One of Israel's most celebrated novelists the acclaimed author of" A Pigeon and a Boy "now gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. In the year 1930, three
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who a
"The path to freedom from self-destructive qualms ran over the corpses of those nobler than you," Roman Frister writes in his bone-chilling autobiography. Moving between his childhood in Silesia, adolescence in Nazi concentration camps, postwar career as
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses
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