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The book brings together short fiction from the late 1990s to 2010: reworked pieces from the author's debut collection, a dozen previously uncollected stories and three newer novellas. Most take place inside cramped households, families or near-families where someone is always missing or slipping away. The narrators feel apart from those around them yet remain secretly tied to this mute, stifling closeness. Each piece pushes the settled order of such a home into crisis, leaving a protagonist who senses he is different and does not know where to go next; nothing is neatly resolved. Many figures are migrants or migrants' children on the edge of Israeli society, getting by under strain.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

312 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2011 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

41 when first published