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Six Israeli Novellas (Verba Mundi (Paperback)) by Yaakov Shabtai; Benjamin Tammuz; Aharon Apelfeld; Yehudit Hendel; David Grossman; Ruth Almog; Gershon Shaked; Dalya Bilu; Philip Simpson; Marganit Weinberger-Rotman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Six Israeli Novellas offers work by six of Israel's most important contemporary authors. Included are Aharon Appelfeld's In the Isles of St. George, in which a fugitive black marketeer - a modern incarnation of the eternal Wandering Jew - is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island where his past, his Jewishness, and his very sense of identity are resolved. David Grossman's Yani on the Mountain explores the psychological impact of the 1973 Yom Kippur War on a young generation of Israelis against the backdrop of a Mount Sinai army base in the final days before its demolition. Ruth Almog's Shrinking portrays the loneliness and frustration of a middle-aged heroine whose longing for genuine human contact is thwarted by her stifling bond to her aged father.</p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>Six popular Israeli authors are featured in this new English translation of earlier short works that originally appeared in Hebrew from the mid-1960s through the late 1980s. Ruth Almog's Shrinking is an impressionistic study in quintessential female loneliness. Abigail, a single schoolteacher, takes care of her aging father and searches for diversions. A suitor who is a former student tells

Author

Yaakov Shabtai; Benjamin Tammuz; Aharon Apelfeld; Yehudit Hendel; David Grossman; Ruth Almog; Gershon Shaked; Dalya Bilu; Philip Simpson; Marganit Weinberger-Rotman

Publisher

Godine, David R. Publishers, Inc.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567921991

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14