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In this delicately structured and psychologically rigorous short story collection, Yehudit Hendel maps out a shadow land between life and death, the mundane and the fantastic. These eight stories, which should be read as a cycle, offer variations on the themes of loneliness, family ties, obsession, and regret in contemporary Israel. In The Letter That Came in Time, the setting is the shivah for an anthropologist. Through a series of tension-filled conversations among the deceaseds family and colleagues, Hendel subtly reveals the complexity of numerous relationships. Low, Close to the Floor, concerns a mantwice married and now dyingwracked with the pain of deciding by which wife he should be buried. My Friend Bs Feast depicts the final supper of a woman dying of cancer. The title story, Small Change, is a truly horrifying look into the paranoid mind of an Israeli woman and her troubled relationship with her father. Hendels close attention to detail, the spareness of her writing, and her utter lack of sentimentality create a fantastic world of emotions which seem heightened and supressed at the same time. Small Change offers a compelling introduction to one of modern Israels finest w

Author

Yehudit Hendel; Dalya Bilu; Barbara Harshaw; Marsh Pomerantz

Publisher

Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584652793

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories