Meir Shalev
Author
Language
English
Description
"A joyful round of the seasons in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow. On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel Mountains rising up to the west, Meir Shalev has a large garden, "neither neatly organized nor well-kept," as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and "house dwellers," using his own quirky techniques. He...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Judith moves to a village in Palestine and three men fall in love with her. She refuses to marry any of them, but eleven years later she gives birth to a son. The boy resembles all three men and all three claim him as their own. Finally, Judith marries one of the men, only to die in a snowstorm. Told by Zayde, her son. By an Israeli writer, author of The Blue Mountain.
6) Esau
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A modern version of a classic biblical story about the rivalry of two brothers, Esau and Jacob. In this one, when Jacob steals his woman and inherits the family bakery, Esau emigrates to America to become a gourmet food columnist. By the author of The Blue Mountain, a noted Israeli writer.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1930, three farmers committed suicide here . . . but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered." This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and independent thinker in this small farming community, writing seventy years later about that...
Author
Publisher
עם עובד
Pub. Date
2017
Language
עברית
Description
את גינת בר כתב מאיר שלו על גינת ביתו בעמק יזרעאל, בה נטע עצי בר ושיחי בר, שתל וזרע רקפות, כלניות, נרקיסים, חצבים ופרחי בר רבים אחרים, ובה הוא מתרועע עם בעליה האמתיים: ציפורים, קיפודים, פרפרים, חזירי בר ועוד חברים. הטבע של הארץ, המתואר ונוכח בכל הרומנים שכתב,
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