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Mandate-era Jerusalem, in a poor Sephardi quarter: a disturbed wife dreams of an English sailor who exists only in her mind, while her tiny, unhappy husband tries to win her back and their two children grow up without tenderness. Around them stand a bullying, absurd grandfather and a shrewd grandmother keeping everyone together. The book also mourns the old neighbourhood and its people, who read the scriptures in strange, inventive ways.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

380 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, British Mandate

First published

2011 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

76 when first published

ISBN

9789655179712 (original)