Voices from Israel #: Days of Peace

Voices from Israel #: Days of Peace
Rachel Shihor, Sara Tropper, Esther Frumkin
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Hardback
h203 x 127mm - 176pg
17 Mar 2020 UK
International import eta 10-30 days
9780857426994
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Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Peace Accords and was assassinated by a right-wing ideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a former architect from secular Tel Aviv, has just married Jochanan, a religious doctor who emigrated from Sweden. Days of Peace follows Naomi through 1950s Jerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters, from an Arab beggar-woman in a park on a Sabbath afternoon to a professor of biblical archaeology on a life-long quest to produce a hand-lettered edition of the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the city pass: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentry workshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital, a former leper colony, and more. As Naomi' s marriage deteriorates, she travels to Poland, where the sorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwines with her nostalgia for the early romance of her now-faded marriage. But as the drama unfolds in the divorce court back in Jerusalem, Naomi is on her ultimate search-to find her place in this historical city. Written in deceptively simple, almost conversational prose, Rachel Shihor' s novel is a poignant layered portrait of a city, a new-born nation, and a young woman' s quest to find herself.

Days of Peace

Rachel Shihor has written several works on philosophy and a bilingual Hebrew-English collection of short stories, Stalin Is Dead: Stories and Aphorisms on Animals, Poets and Other Earthly Creatures. She lives in Tel Aviv. Sara Tropper is a translator and linguistic editor living in Israel. Esther Frumkin is a translator who grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, and has lived in Israel since 1987.
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ISBN-13: 9780857426994
Published: 17 Mar 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 176

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