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Synopsis
A tale of life in Jewish Palestine prior to World War I tells the story of the Weiss family as their apparently innocent neurotic impulses unravel the family's strictly ordered, traditional life
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Text: English, Hebrew (translation)
From Publishers Weekly
This bleak evocation of a colony that will one day become a thriving suburb of Tel Aviv takes a strong grip on readers, thrusting them into embattled households and secret lives. The Weiss family, newly arrived from eastern Europe, resides in a cluttered house where daughters Riva and Batsheva languish, reading novels and giggling when the occasional visitor arrives. Their father alternately harangues and soothes his discontented family while devoting most of his time to his orange groves. When his wife pulls the bedclothes over her head and diesas for a long time she has threatened to dohe turns for relief first to religion and then to an old woman, whom he marries. Soon their imposing new mansion begins to crumble; the daughters itch with repressed sexuality; WW I begins and there is no longer a market for Weiss's fruit. Though its atmosphere of despair is all but overwhelming, the novel is nonetheless oddly compelling.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0151039593
- ISBN 13 9780151039593
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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After the Holidays.
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ISBN 13: 9780151039593
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After the Holidays
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0151039593
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First american edition. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. 8vo, 216pp. Hardcover with dustjacket, both in excellent condition. A clean, tight, copy with no signs of prior ownership. The dustjacket is unclipped and protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper. Like new. Seller Inventory # 009098
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