For more than twenty years, Modern Hebrew Literature has helped English speakers keep abreast of Israel's dynamic literary scene. Each issue features translated excerpts of novels, short sorties, articles, interviews, poetry and book reviews recently published in Hebrew. The theme of this fifth edition published by The Toby Press is Israel at Sixty: Retrospective & Renewal.
Like all great books, it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael tells the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael.
Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman's retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed desires.
Unto Death
Three Special Days: A Young Boy and His Family Celebrate Pesach During the Time of the Second Temple
Haim Sabato draws us into his childhood with this evocative rendering of his experiences as a young boy whose family immigrates to Israel in the 1950's, settling in a Ma'abara - a transit camp.
"A banquet for all the senses," said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden ...