מט ילדים

Three pieces make up the book. In the title novella, the courtyard of a Soviet apartment block in Chernivtsi is observed by several children, most of them girls, each talented in some odd way and each feeling like an outsider; their games already hint at how harsh grown-ups can be. In Galit and Gordon, set in Tel Aviv, a woman waits a quarter of a century for her lover to commit, though his north Tel Aviv background and possessive mother seem worlds away from her working-class neighbourhood and cold mother. In the closing story, a cleaner newly arrived from Russia skips trips to see her one friend to save money, never noticing that she buys two tickets on every commute.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

219 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine, Israel

First published

2011 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

54 when first published