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Joseph Schimmel loves all things French and has failed at most of them: he has lost his post as an outside lecturer in a dwindling French-culture department. He retreats into the one thing he has achieved, his flat in the middle of Tel Aviv's permanent gridlock, surrounded by his possessions and keeping the noise, the view and the smog at bay. His outings are limited to errands and walks with an adopted, badger-like dog, and on them he studies the vivid homeless people near the London Ministore and the occupants of two luxury towers. His life accelerates when he starts helping French immigrants make a home in Israel and, above all, when a house in Normandy comes to him by inheritance and drags him into a politically tinged swindle that begins to take everything he owns.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

233 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, France

First published

2022 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789650211837 (original)

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