שתיקה

Now around eighty, in the year 2020, the narrator finally writes his life and the vivid happenings of his village in the middle of the last century, saying goodbye to that time and to the people who vanished one by one and left a silence behind them. All his life he copied what others wrote and imposed a voluntary muteness on himself; why he did so is one of the book's riddles. Several times he almost speaks, but someone else always says his words first. At the heart of the novel is his bond with his father, a man harnessed to his family all his life, a relationship of mutual sacrifice. Events arrive as links in a chain no one remembers starting.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

223 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2000 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

61 when first published