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How to Love Your Daughter

איך לאהוב את בתך · Ekh le-ehov et bitekh

Hila Blum (הילה בלום, born 1969)

Translated by Daniella Zamir

English editions

In English

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Far from her home in Israel, a woman waits in the dark outside a house in a small city in the north of the Netherlands and watches two little girls through the glass: her only daughter's children, whom she has never been allowed to meet. Going back over a family of three, a mother, a father and their girl, the novel shows how loving errors add up, one small step at a time, to a psychological drama, as the mother probes the most intimate layers of her love and asks how far any parent can shape a child's life.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
238 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Israel, Netherlands
First published
2021 by Kinneret Zmora-Dvir
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9789655741704 (original)

9780593539644 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9781526662460 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9781526662477 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9780593539651 (Riverhead Books, United States)