מתום עד תום

The closing part of an autobiographical cycle, the novel follows Elisha Kruk and his beloved Noga through half a century and more together, from his discharge from the British army after the Second World War to the turbulent days after Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. History is everywhere, above all in vivid chapters on the 1948 war in and around Jerusalem, but the weight shifts steadily from public life to private life, to the body's and the soul's pains, and early devotion to the collective turns into a sad estrangement from a changed country. At its core is a marriage that becomes a contest between two proud, stubborn people who wound each other while their great love endures.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

543 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, 1945–1990s

First published

2003 by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir

Author's age

77 when first published

ISBN

9789655170894 (original)