Lit in Translation

פסנתר בחורף

Psanter ba-horef

“Piano in Winter” (title translated by AI)

Ayelet Shamir (אילת שמיר, born 1964)

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Joe Ochana keeps a sleepy piano bar at the far end of an isolated village. On a December night of storm and rain he is there with his pianist Gadi and Fadil, a young Arab kitchen hand, when six travellers heading home to Tel Aviv, two of them women, come in. Joe would like to close up, but they insist on drinks. As midnight passes and the rain beats down, tempers break loose inside, and no one guesses how the night will end, or whether it could have gone another way.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
315 pages in the original
Set in
Israel
First published
2007 by Am Oved
Author's age
43 when first published