Four Meals (Paperback, Main)

In a rural village in Palestine's Jezreel Valley, the enigmatic Judith is torn between three suitors - a widowed farmer, a coarse cattle dealer and a man who breeds canaries. Decades later, over the 'four meals' of the book's English title, her son Zayde gradually learns about the three men who all look upon him as their son. Who is his real father? Does it matter? Bittersweet and highly lyrical - Shalev's prose has been compared to that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - this is an unabashed piece of magic realism, complete with mythology, proverbs, animal messengers and even a ghost. (Kirkus UK)

Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers. When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh; Jacob, owner of hundreds of canaries and host to the four meals which lend the book its narrative structure; and Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair which his mother cut off in childhood. During the four meals, which take place intermittently over several decades, Zayde slowly comes to understand why these three men consider him their son and why all three participate in raising him.

General

Imprint:	Canongate Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2001
First published:	July 2010
Authors:	Meir Shalev
Translators:	Barbara Harshav
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	331
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-84195-114-0
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Hebrew
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84195-114-5
Barcode:	9781841951140

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