Six Israeli Novellas

by Shaked, Gershon

• ISBN13: 9781567920918
• ISBN10: 1567920918
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

"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 incarnation 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. David Grossman's "Yani on the Mountain" 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 the final days before its demolition. Ruth Almog's "Shrinking" portrays the loneliness and frustration of a middle-aged heroine whose longing for genuine human contact is thwarted by her stifling bond to her aged father."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Gershon Shaked
Shrinking	3	(34)
Ruth Almog
Yani on the Mountain	37	(89)
David Grossman
Uncle Peretz Takes Flight	126	(34)
Yaakov Shabtai
Small Change	160	(52)
Yehudit Hendel
My Brother	212	(92)
Benjamin Tammuz
In the Isles of St. George	304
Aharon Appelfeld