Lit in Translation

מחר ניסע ללונה פארק

Mahar nisa le-lunah park

“Tomorrow We'll Go to the Amusement Park” (title translated by AI)

Ilana Bernstein (אילנה ברנשטיין, born 1957)

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A harsh winter is raging, a crisis has dragged on for too long, and a very young mother, still half a child, is days away from losing her grip altogether when she makes up her mind: she will take her two little ones on an outing to the funfair. Sometimes she feels they are not her own but foundlings, disaster survivors she has carried out of a fire their real parents died in. The novel is built around a woman whose isolation is devastating precisely because she is chasing an ideal of good mothering she can never meet, and it opens the deepest, darkest compartment of maternal feeling.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
223 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Israel
First published
2018 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan
Author's age
61 when first published
ISBN

9789655667479 (original)