חיי חורף

In six stories, people loosened from routine by a trip or a break meet the absurd. A divorced American Jew now making counterfeit denim in Cairo reduces big talk of freedom and statehood to sweets and grilled meat. An Israeli academic sent to a snowy American backwater to study her emigrant compatriots thinks mostly about the cold. At her uncle's funeral up north, a young woman bets on whether her frail elderly neighbour or his Polish caregiver will go first. Other stories follow a famous author's self-effacing wife, a gruelling day at a car inspection yard, and an unsuccessful novelist, pushed by his father to open a pizza place, who flies to America to talk about Tolstoy.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

174 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, United States, Egypt

First published

2010 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

50 when first published