טווס בחדר המדרגות

Three Amizada siblings spent their childhood in a small Ramat Gan flat under a brutal father, beautiful as a pharaoh, who dominated the whole household. As grown-ups they drift: the eldest sister, unmarried, works in social services and chases men online and in secret; the brother, a philosophy PhD, runs errands for a semi-literate neighbourhood rabbi and ignores his devoted wife and infant; the youngest, vague and lonely, roams at night looking for romance while her small daughter will not take off her tights. Then the father takes his own life in front of them, and what was murky turns sharp, from the fear the little girl hides to the mother who had always lived in the shadows.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

479 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2014 by Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789655528312 (original)