Cafe Shira - A Novel (Paperback)

New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Cafe Shira's devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary cafe owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation. These characters form the heart of this wry, often poignant novel narrated through a series of vignettes. They are joined by a colorful cast of characters who frequent the literary cafe-long-married couples, young lovers, an eccentric poet, and a traumatized veteran-all finding refuge and occasionally wisdom among their motley urban community. Closely based on Ehrlich's own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a cafe that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Cafe Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love.

General

Imprint:	Syracuse University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	David Ehrlich • Michael Swirsky
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-8156-1142-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8156-1142-0
Barcode:	9780815611424

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