Een vrouw op de vlucht voor een bericht By David Grossman

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Title	:	Een vrouw op de vlucht voor een bericht
Author	:	David Grossman
ISBN	:	9059362632
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	686

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Isra l verkeert in staat van alarm Ofer heeft net zijn dienstplicht erop zitten, maar meldt zich vrijwillig voor een militaire actie op de Westerlijke Jordaanoever Ora, zijn moeder, vlucht zonder mobieltje en zonder radio het huis uit om zich niet te kwellen met het wachten op een slecht bericht Ze twijfelt er niet aan dat dit bericht zal komen Maar door te weigeren he Isra l verkeert in staat van alarm Ofer heeft net zijn dienstplicht erop zitten, maar meldt zich vrijwillig voor een militaire a...

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See Under By David Grossman

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Title	:	See Under
Author	:	David Grossman
ISBN	:	0312420692
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	464

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In this powerful novel by one of Israel s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents history Determined to exorcise the Nazi beast from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment But through the stories h In this powerful novel by one of Israel s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the s...

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Broken Promises By Igal Sarna

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Title	:	Broken Promises
Author	:	Igal Sarna
ISBN	:	1843541068
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	209

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This volume features portraits of Israeli men and women, it shows how they struggle to hold on to their identity, their sanity and their hope in the face of brutal and desperate conditions....

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A Late Divorce By A.B. Yehoshua

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Title	:	A Late Divorce
Author	:	A.B. Yehoshua
ISBN	:	0156494477
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	364

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Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B Yehoshua s A Late Divorce London Review of BooksA powerful story about a family and a country in crisis.The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years a Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will a...

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Closing the Sea By Judith Katzir

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Title	:	Closing the Sea
Author	:	Judith Katzir
ISBN	:	0151182000
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	147

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A collection of short stories by the author of The Closing Sea features the story of two cousins discovering sex and love as they plan the murder of their uncle, a young waitress swept off her feet by an aging film director, and others....

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The Liberated Bride By A.B. Yehoshua

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Title	:	The Liberated Bride
Author	:	A.B. Yehoshua
ISBN	:	0156030160
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	576

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Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and the mystery of his son s divorce His is a double search for truth, each involving a different bride Samaher, his own research assistant, an ambitious Arab newlywed from a village in the Galilee, and Galya, wh Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian ...

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World Cup Wishes By Eshkol Nevo

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Title	:	World Cup Wishes
Author	:	Eshkol Nevo
ISBN	:	0701184426
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final One of them has an idea let s write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final four years from now we ll get them out and see how many we ve achieved This is how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes and their friendships as life ma Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final One of them has an idea let s write down our wishes for the next...

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The Lover By A.B. Yehoshua

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Title	:	The Lover
Author	:	A.B. Yehoshua
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	360

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A husband seeks his wife s lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel s Yom Kippur War As the story of his quest unfolds and grows in intensity, the main protagonists are drawn into the search and are transformed by it through the different perspectives of husband, wife, teenage daughter, and young Arab emerges a complex picture of the uneasy present, the tension betw A husband seeks his wife s lover who is lost in the turbulence of Israel s Yom Kippur War As the story of his quest unfolds an...

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Light Years By Tammar Stein

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Title	:	Light Years
Author	:	Tammar Stein
ISBN	:	0375830235
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	272

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He went to school to learn how to kill me The Israeli girl who ruined his life Seven people were killed instead A single mother of two A computer programmer Two college students A grandmother and her four year old grandson sharing an ice cream And Dov, my boyfriend, my heart, the man I wanted to marry, who was there waiting for me Maya leaves Israel to study astron He went to school to learn how to kill me The Israeli girl who ruined his life Seven people were killed instead A single ...

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A Perfect Peace By Amos Oz

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Title	:	A Perfect Peace
Author	:	Amos Oz
ISBN	:	0156716836
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384

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Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel Washington Post Book WorldIsrael, just before the Six Day War On a kibbutz, the country s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father the Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel Washington Post Book WorldIsrael, just before the Six Day War On a kibbutz,...

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Past Continuous By Yaakov Shabtai

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Title	:	Past Continuous
Author	:	Yaakov Shabtai
ISBN	:	0715632728
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:

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Past Continuous depicts the crises in the lives of the three Israeli men Goldman, Israel and Caesar as they attempt to focus their lives and extract meaning from chaos....

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Dolly City By Orly Castel-Bloom

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Title	:	Dolly City
Author	:	Orly Castel-Bloom
ISBN	:	0952942607
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	185

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A fable of the comic horror of modern urban existence seen through the eyes of Doctor Dolly, a woman alone in an alienating city Dolly mounts a solitary, crazy and comic protest against warmongers and bureaucrats, adopting a son along the way....

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The Book of Intimate Grammar By David Grossman

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Title	:	The Book of Intimate Grammar
Author	:	David Grossman
ISBN	:	0312420951
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12 year old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years While Israel inches toward the Six Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child s body, spying on the changes that adu Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12 year old friends begin to mature...

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Homesick By Eshkol Nevo

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Title	:	Homesick
Author	:	Eshkol Nevo
ISBN	:	0701181281
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

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This heart warming, charming and clever first novel dips into the lives of each of the inhabitants of a village in Israel.It is 1995 and Noa and Amir, a student couple, have decided to move in together Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a psychology student in Tel Aviv They choose a small apartment in a village in the hills, midway between the two citie This heart warming, charming and clever first novel dips into the lives of each of the inhabitants of a village in Israel.It i...

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Four Meals By Meir Shalev

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Title	:	Four Meals
Author	:	Meir Shalev
ISBN	:	1841951145
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	332

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From the author of the critically acclaimed A Pigeon and a Boy, the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith, and her three loversWhen Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle dealer who loves women, money, and flesh Jacob, owner of hundreds of canar From the author of the critically acclaimed A Pigeon and a Boy, the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Ju...

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Only Yesterday By S.Y. Agnon

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Title	:	Only Yesterday
Author	:	S.Y. Agnon
ISBN	:	0691095442
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	688

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Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y Agnon s famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and re Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y Agnon s famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for th...

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Suddenly, Love By Aharon Appelfeld

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Title	:	Suddenly, Love
Author	:	Aharon Appelfeld
ISBN	:	0805242953
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	240

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A poignant, heartbreaking new work the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other s lives in ways they could never have imagined.Ernst is a gruff seventy year old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II A retired investment advisor, he lives alone his first wife and baby daugh A poignant, heartbreaking new work the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other s lives in ways...

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