כי גי

Some forty years after leaving his hometown at seventeen, Guy comes back for a visit, with appointments lined up with people who once knew him, to see whether he can become one of them again and blend in. Brenner, who stayed, takes him to see the new housing going up for locals, and Guy pushes him into a lime pit, never saying exactly why. Though he narrates every moment of the visit in extreme detail, enormous holes remain: his encounters fade away strangely, he ducks residents, he never came back for his parents' funerals, and he seems afraid some flaw or sin will surface. It is all told in a subversive Hebrew that turns qualities and actions into objects.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

265 pages in the original

Set in

Israel

First published

2017 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

47 when first published