Lit in Translation

אחוזות החוף

Ahuzot ha-hof

“Seaside Estates” (title translated by AI)

Amir Gutfreund (אמיר גוטפרוינד, born 1963)

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Ranging from French country manors to Tel Aviv attics, these stories follow half-mad, or half-sane, characters: a blacksmith with a gift for cooking, a farmer growing poems among the parsley, a retired forest ranger, a kind beauty with one dark crime in her past. Lone individuals take on huge powers, from God to the national lottery, in fights lost in advance.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
271 pages in the original
Set in
France, Israel
First published
2002 by Zmora-Bitan
Author's age
39 when first published