בגד מאש

In the first of two novellas, a student in Jerusalem is spellbound by a magnetic older woman who is going blind and pays her to read aloud; their dark intimacy draws the girl who lends her eyes into a darkness she may never escape. In the second, a woman voluntarily enters an institution together with her mother, who has dementia, and withdraws from the world, slowly letting her existence dissolve into oblivion. Both are stories of love between women, of abandoning one's own over-written life to slip unseen into someone else's, and the two halves trade light and shadow.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

176 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2019 by Keter

Author's age

56 when first published