יולנדה

A writer revisits his boyhood and teenage years and the relatives who shaped him, especially his grandmother Yolanda, a glamorous woman from Cairo who arrived in Palestine young yet always felt a stranger there. The bond between them, physical and emotional, marks the boy deeply. A second Yolanda turns out to be the heroine of a manuscript nobody suspected: a novel his grandfather Georges wrote in secret after Yolanda threw him out of the house for reasons never explained. Leaping across decades and cities, the book sketches a generation of immigrants divided between French and Hebrew, between Israel and the places they left.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

217 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2011 by Keter

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789650719036 (original)