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(0)Meir Shalev
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their new land: dirt.
Grandma
Author
Series
Sifriyah la-ʻam volume 820
Publisher
ʻAm ʻoved
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
עברית
Description
"Itamar Diskin, a very handsome and very nearsighted man, lives in the United States and comes to Israel every year for eye examinations and to meet his brother and sister-in-law. During one of the visits, on an alcohol-saturated evening, he tells his brother about one night with a woman who met him twenty years earlier and took him to her home. A surprising story, sometimes sad and sometimes amusing, about love and longing, beauty and loneliness,...
Author
Publisher
ʻAm ʻoved
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
עברית
Description
"What really happens when children have a loose tooth? And what really happens when it falls out? One night, a boy woke up and called to his mother: "Mom, I woke up, my tooth is loose. The tooth was amazed: "Sorry?! It's you who is moving me, not me moving on my own!" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
6) Fonṭanelah
Author
Series
Sifriyah la-ʻam volume 500
Publisher
ʻAm ʻoved
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
עברית
Description
Michael Yoffe, 55, father of twins and the only normal person of the Yoffe family tells his life story.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
2In 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.3 This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and indepen{u00AD}dent thinker in this small farming community who is writing seventy years...
