I thoroughly enjoyed this book, in which Meir Shalev writes about his family and their roots in Nahalal, Israel's first moshav. The Jezreel valley setting and the characters were familiar, as Shalev has set some of his fictional works here. This time the story is a memoir, using his family for ...
Forgive me for showing off a little -- I'm actually reading this in the original Hebrew. I know it was entirely unnecessary for me to point that out, but I'm excited about my new quest to improve my Hebrew literacy. Also, I wanted to let you know in advance that it will take me a long time to p...
When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a widowed farmer; Globerman, a wealthy cattle dealer; and Jacob, who loses his wife--the most beautiful woman in the village--because of his obsession with Jud...
Hoping to overhear something about Grandfather’s condition in the days before his death, I was outside the village doctor’s house, where the health director of the old folk’s home was giving one of his periodic reports to the physicians of the area.‘If only I had been there!’ I wept to Pinness. ‘...
Grandpa let him take the pickup—this was our old pickup truck, the rickety Ford with the rounded fenders—from the age of fourteen, on condition that he not drive on the roads but only through the fields. At the pond he would undress and swim and then float naked on an inflated inner tube, which h...