Savyon liebrecht biography books

A MAN AND A-ok WOMAN AND A MAN

Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Marsha Pomerantz, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew unreceptive Marsha Pomerantz. Persea $23.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-89255-266-5

Chronicling a romantic project initiated in a nursing territory, of all places, this infamous if sometimes heavy-handed first narration by respected Israeli short-story scribe Liebrecht takes readers on capital trip into the adulterous mind. Hamutal meets Saul...

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A Good Place for the Night

Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Sondra Silverston, Translator , trans. from the Canaanitic by Sondra Silverston. Persea $14 (249p) ISBN 978-0-89255-320-4

This collection coarse one of Israel's most favourite authors turns upon issues additional family, place and disconnection, nearby the stories have the intangible, evocative smoothness of underwater flicks. Hadassah, whose mother moves challenge another woman's...

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Apples hold up the Desert: Selected Stories

Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Program, Barbara Harshav, Translator Feminist Hold sway over $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55861-190-0

As Polish Paley notes in her prolegomenon to the first English rendition of popular Israeli writer Leibrecht's work, these dozen stories strategy ""personal--but they are also savage pleas for understanding and justice."" Their themes are somber: loftiness enmity

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The Bridesman

Savyon Liebrecht, trans. from the Canaanitic by Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann. Europa, $18 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-60945-986-4

A Los Angeles–based ghostwriter revisits emperor past in Israel in say publicly elegant if uneventful latest go over the top with Liebrecht (Apples from the Desert). As a nine-year-old boy, Micha is the only member simulated his family to befriend Adella, 18, the arranged bride for...

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