Lit in Translation

הבית הכחול

ha-Bayit ha-kahol

“The Blue House” (title translated by AI)

Dana Heifetz (דנה חפץ, born 1965)

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A blue house on the beach once held a father, a mother, a girl, a boy and a dog. The woman who tells their story imagines a vast exhibition about them that will never be staged, and writes its accompanying text as a glossary of the family’s own words. Entry by entry, the fragments show a family full of life, and the cracks that open in it as it comes apart after someone leaves.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
271 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
First published
2023 by Pardes
Author's age
58 when first published
ISBN

9789655413809 (original)