Homesick Contributor(s): Nevo, Eshkol (Author), Silverston, Sondra (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1564785823 ISBN-13: 9781564785824 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2009054268 |
Series: Hebrew Literature |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.98 lbs) 374 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This remarkable, kaleidoscopic novel tells the fragmented stories of a group of women and men brought together by chance in a small neighborhood in the hills of Israel. It is 1995, and Amir, a young man studying psychology in Jerusalem, and his girlfriend Noa, studying photography in Tel Aviv, decide to move in together, choosing a tiny apartment midway between their two cities--a village that was forcibly emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1948. Although the two students are only looking for a convenient place to spend time together, they find their new home to be no less complex a web of relationships than urban life: their landlords live on the other side of a paper-thin wall; the next-door neighbors have just lost their eldest son in Lebanon; and further down the street, a Palestinian construction worker named Saddiq is keeping a close watch on the house where his own family used to live. |