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Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life
was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the
suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession.
She recounts how each cat came into her life, their distinct
demeanours and curiosities, and their ability to live fully in each
moment. Anat falls in love with the furry creatures, whose
escapades and tribulations lead her into deep friendships,
difficult decisions and unexpected insight into her relationships.
The cats love her in the way she wishes she could love others:
intensely yet independently, without renouncing their unique
personalities. By caring for these cats, Anat comes to a deeper
understanding of her connections with former lovers, her daughters
and her own body. In Seven Cats I Have Loved, she delves into the
feline mind with sensitivity, gentleness and compassion, while also
revealing a moving human story.
Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life
was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the
suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession.
She recounts how each cat came into her life, their distinct
demeanours and curiosities and their ability to live fully in each
moment. Anat falls in love with the furry creatures, whose
escapades and tribulations lead her into deep friendships,
difficult decisions, and unexpected insight into her relationships.
The cats love her in the way she wishes she could love others:
intensely yet independently, without renouncing their unique
personalities. By caring for these cats, Anat comes to a deeper
understanding of her connections with former lovers, her daughters
and her own body. In Seven Cats I Have Loved, she delves into the
feline mind with sensitivity, gentleness, and compassion, while
also revealing a moving human story. translated by Yardenne
Greenspan
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The Memory Monster (Paperback)
Yishai Sarid; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022 A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A brilliant short novel that serves as a
brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the
present' The New York Times 'Excels in its readiness to court
controversy without surrendering nuance, and in place of moralising
it offers questioning that's as necessary as it is unsettling.'
Observer Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem,
Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed
narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a
promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi
methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps.
The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession. With
great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory
Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to
Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What
makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the
suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?
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West Jerusalem Noir
Maayan Eitan; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
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R406
R331
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Victorious (Hardcover)
Yishai Sarid; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
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R483
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Fly Already (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Nathan Englander, …
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Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into
giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and
call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you
want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's
birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to
get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you
a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high
building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly
already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful
emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the
familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a
collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran
commentator on the circus farce that is life.
In this award-winning historical saga, passionate young lovers in a
Jewish ghetto rise to become the foremost financial dynasty in the
world. It is the turn of the eighteenth century in Frankfurt,
Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to
establish themselves in the cramped and restricted Judengasse. But
when Meir's talents as a novice banker catch the attention of a
German prince, Meir is suddenly afforded entree into the European
world of finance and nobility, and the Rothschilds' lives are
changed forever. As proud as Gutle is of her husband's success, she
is also cautious-very much aware of the fact that her husband's
rise is tied to his patrons' willingness to "see past" his
Jewishness. As their family grows, and a dream of fortune comes
true, so does their belief that money will ultimately bring the
power needed to establish Jewish civil rights. Told through Gutle's
intimate journals, revealed across decades-from the French
Revolution through personal tragedies and triumphs-The First Mrs.
Rothschild paints a rich and intimate tapestry of family drama,
world-changing history, and one woman's steadfast strength.
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Some Day (Paperback)
Shemi Zarhin; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
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R456
R427
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Words without Borders Best Books of 2013, Coffin Factory Best Books
of 2013, and World Literature Today Best Books of 2013. "Ardent,
salty, whimsical, steamy, absurd ...A wallop to the
reader."--Ploughshares "Beautiful ...reading the book feels like
going back in time ."--Yael Stone, actor in Orange is the New Black
"Since I was little, I have thrilled at reading food-related
passages in novels. But the food scenes in Some Day by Israeli
novelist Shemi Zarhin are on another level. In one passage, Zarhin
describes a dish so vividly I felt compelled to re-create it in my
own kitchen ...My mouth watered."--Leah Koenig in Modern Jewish
Cooking "Extremely moving."--Miami Sun Sentinel "Zarhin has added
his name to the luminaries of Israeli literature."--The Arts Fuse
"This thrilling, fresh, and surprising novel ought to draw the eyes
of the literati back to Israel."--ForeWord Reviews "Masterful
...haunting ...sublime ...Zarhin's characters are so real they
fairly jump off the page."--The Jerusalem Post On the shores of
Israel's Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias, a place bursting
with sexuality and longing for love. The air is saturated with
smells of cooking and passion. Young Shlomi, who develops a
remarkable culinary talent, has fallen for Ella, the strange
neighbor with suicidal tendencies; his little brother Hilik
obsessively collects words in a notebook. In the wild, selfish but
magical grown-up world that swirls around them, a mother with a
poet's soul mourns the deaths of literary giants while her handsome
husband cheats on her both at home and abroad. Some Day is a
gripping family saga. Shemi Zarhin's hypnotic writing renders a
painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel's
larger national story. Shemi Zarhin, born in Tiberias in 1961, is a
novelist, film director, and screenwriter who has created some of
the most critically acclaimed and award-winning films in the
history of Israeli cinema.
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Where I Am (Paperback)
Dana Shem-Ur; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
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R449
R371
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Alexandrian Summer (Paperback)
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren; Translated by Yardenne Greenspan; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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R367
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"Helps show why postwar Alexandria inspires nostalgia and avidity
in seemingly everyone who knew it ...The result is what summer
reading should be: fast, carefree, visceral, and incipiently
lubricious."-- The New Yorker Alexandrian Summer is the story of
two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed
cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt
for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle
class are laid bare in this dazzling novel, which exposes startling
sexual hypocrisies and portrays a now vanished polyglot world of
horse-racing, seaside promenades, and elegant night clubs.
Hamdi-Ali senior is an old-time patriarch with more than a dash of
strong Turkish blood. His handsome elder son, a promising horse
jockey, can't afford sexual frustration, as it leads him to overeat
and imperil his career, but the woman he lusts after won't let him
get beyond undoing a few buttons. Victor, the younger son, takes
his pleasure with other boys. But the true heroine of the
story--richly evoked in a pungent upstairs/downstairs mix--is the
raucous, seductive city of Alexandria itself. Published in Hebrew
in 1978, Alexandrian Summer appears now in translation for the
first time. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren was born in Alexandria, Egypt,
in 1941 and immigrated to Israel as a child. A playwright and
novelist, Goren studied English and French literature at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. In 1982, he
cofounded the Bimat Kedem Theater.
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