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Days of Peace (Hardcover, Edition, First English Translation ed.)
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Days of Peace (Hardcover, Edition, First English Translation ed.)
Series: Voices from Israel
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Loot Price R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
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Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli prime
minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Peace Accords and was
assassinated by a rightwing ideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a
former architect from secular Tel Aviv, has just married Jochanan,
a religious doctor who emigrated from Sweden. Days of Peace follows
Naomi through Jerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters,
from an Arab beggarwoman in a park on a Sabbath afternoon to a
professor of biblical archaeology on a life-long quest to produce a
hand-lettered edition of the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the
city pass before our eyes: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentry
workshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital, a former leper colony and
more. As Naomi's marriage deteriorates, she travels to Poland,
where the sorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwines with
her nostalgia for the early romance of her now-faded marriage. But
while the drama unfolds in the divorce court back in Jerusalem,
Naomi is on her ultimate search--to find her place in this
historical city. Written in deceptively simple, almost
conversational prose, Rachel Shihor's latest novel is a poignant,
layered portrait of a city and a young woman's quest to find
herself.
General
Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Voices from Israel |
Release date: |
March 2020 |
Authors: |
Rachel Shihor
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Translators: |
Sara Tropper
• Esther Frumkin
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
176 |
Edition: |
Edition, First English Translation ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-699-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-85742-699-0 |
Barcode: |
9780857426994 |
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