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9780805243512

My Wild Garden Notes from a Writer's Eden

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805243512

  • ISBN10:

    0805243518

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-03-31
  • Publisher: Schocken
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Summary

A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow
 
On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques.  He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, and does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives.
 
Informed by Shalev’s literary sensibility, his sometime riotous humor, and his deep curiosity about the land, My Wild Garden abounds with appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on Earth. Our borrowed time on any particular patch of it is enhanced, the author reminds us, by our honest, respectful dealings with all manner of beings who inhabit it with us.

Author Biography

One of Israel's most celebrated novelists, MEIR SHALEV was born in 1948 on Nahalal, Israel's first moshav. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and his honors include the National Jewish Book Award and Israel's Brenner Prize for A Pigeon and a Boy.

JOANNA CHEN is the translator of Less Like a Dove and Frayed Light. She is a columnist for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

REFAELLA SHIR is an Israeli artist who lives in Montreal. She studied art in Israel, Canada, and the United States and has exhibited internationally. Her work can be viewed at refaellashir.com.

Table of Contents

In Lieu of a Preface . . . vii
1. A New Place . . . 3
2. Sea Squill . . . 10
3. Cyclamen . . . 18
4. Wild Trees . . . 23
5. Long Gone . . . 28
6. Work Tools . . . 33
7. Mole Rat . . . 41
8. The Mukhraka . . . 50
9. Ants . . . 54
10. Fruit Trees . . . 62
11. Home and Away . . . 68
12. Sabras . . . 72
13. Seasons . . . 79
14. Weeding . . . 87
15. Big Trees . . . 95
16. A Night in the Garden . . . 101
17. A Sorrowful Song . . . 106
18. Anemones . . . 109
19. Italy in the Garden . . . 114
20. Grass . . . 121
21. A Prayer for Rain . . . 126
22. Chopping Down . . . 133
23. Poppies . . . 138
24. Moments of Bliss . . . 144
25. Land . . . 151
26. Collecting and Other Dangers . . . 156
27. The Great Snapdragon . . . 164
28. Kramer the Cat . . . 168
29. Splendid Bindweed . . . 172
30. Cracked Olives . . . 176
31. Two Moons of Sowing . . . 182
32. Patience . . . 190
33. Barefoot . . . 194
34. Figs . . . 199
35. Wasp Nest . . . 205
36. Lupines . . . 209
37. Just Like Bavaria . . . 213
38. Procrastination and Ridicule . . . 218
39. The Stupid Woodpecker . . . 225
40. The Locked Garden . . . 230
41. Compost in the Composter . . . 236
42. Spiders and Snakes . . . 242
43. Further Dangers . . . 248
44. Tree of the Field . . . 257
45. Date and Carob . . . 264
46. “Oh Oh Virgin’s Bower” . . . 270
47. The Lemon Tree . . . 276
Acknowledgments . . . 281

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