Description

Heartbreaking, comic, and utterly honest, this best-selling and critically-acclaimed new work by "among Israel's most talented and respected writers" (Helen Epstein, The Forward) reaches once a household saga and a magical self portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It's the tale of a child growing up in the war torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a little apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as numerous. The tale of a teenager whose life hasbeen altered forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve yrs old. The tale of the guy who leaves the restrictions of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to become listed on a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have kids.