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Grisha seems an unremarkable man: overweight, taciturn, sharing a run-down public-housing apartment with his mother. Yet he has, it seems, lived many times before, in other eras, other lands and other bodies: four hundred years back in a small Eastern European shtetl, in Venice during the 1700s, then in Morocco a hundred years later, and each existence has scarred him. He may be a liar who tells the truth, but no one takes his word, possibly not even Grisha himself. His mother dismisses the transmigration of souls outright: as far as she is concerned a person gets a single life, and everything beyond it is figurative.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

325 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, Italy, Morocco

First published

2020 by Keter

Author's age

40 when first published