הילד של לגיון הזרים

Tel Aviv, the early 1960s. Three people share a small flat, father, mother and son, and they never open the door without reason: at any moment the creditors may come to seize whatever has not yet been taken. They remember another life, with more money and more hopes, before the family factory went up in flames, whether by accident or by arson, a fire that has gone on burning in their lives. Told in many voices, the novel moves between Alexandria and Tel Aviv, between grand buildings, government offices, housing blocks and a transit camp, as relatives become strangers. It is left to the small boy, a book hidden under his shirt, to gather the fragments. The boy would later become the author's husband, and she wrote his story at his request.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

283 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, Egypt, early 1960s

First published

2023 by Keter

Author's age

61 when first published