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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 reincarnation 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. In "Yani on the Mountain," David Grossman 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 its final days before demolition. Ruth Almog's "Shrinking" lyrically portrays the loneliness and frustrations of a middle-aged heroine whose longing for true human contact is thwarted by her stifling bond to her aged father.
Also included are Yaakov Shabtai's "Uncle Peretz Takes Flight," a grotesque history of the Zionist dream, in the vein of Shalom Aleichem; Yehudit Hendel's "Small Change," about the interaction between the paranoid experience of an Israeli woman abroad and a complex father-daughter relationship; and Benjamin Tammuz's "My Brother," in which one brother's selfish conquests are contrasted to the other's passive, but ultimately more sinister, altruism.
In the words of editor Gershon Shaked, these novellas "show modern Israeli fiction at its richest and most diversified, with a character all its own."
Also included are Yaakov Shabtai's "Uncle Peretz Takes Flight," a grotesque history of the Zionist dream, in the vein of Shalom Aleichem; Yehudit Hendel's "Small Change," about the interaction between the paranoid experience of an Israeli woman abroad and a complex father-daughter relationship; and Benjamin Tammuz's "My Brother," in which one brother's selfish conquests are contrasted to the other's passive, but ultimately more sinister, altruism.
In the words of editor Gershon Shaked, these novellas "show modern Israeli fiction at its richest and most diversified, with a character all its own."
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The writers whose work is included in Six Israeli Novellas, edited by Gershon Shaked, possess a wide range of styles and interests. David Grossman's excellent "Yani on the Mountain" explores the impact of the 1973 Yom Kippur War on a group of young Israelis living on an army base that is about to be demolished. Ruth Almog's "Shrinking" portrays, with the psychological acuity of Virginia Woolf, a lonely woman's painfully close bond with her father. And Benjamin Tammuz's "My Brother" is a decidedly contemporary variation on the ancient story of Jacob and Isaac. The editor's brief, intelligent introduction to this valuable anthology contains an extremely astute summary of the many reasons that these novellas are so compelling. "[W]hat in other literatures plays itself out across lands and eras becomes more concentrated here, more compressed and compacted--but for that very reason, more intense." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Hebrew
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- PublisherDavid R. Godine, Publisher
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 156792199X
- ISBN 13 9781567921991
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages338
- EditorShaked Gershon
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