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The narrator, once hailed as a great literary hope and now eager to lose the urge to write, lives rent-free in a room in a northern village. On a Thursday he is expected, along with his elder sister and younger brother, at the house of their eldest brother, who has locked himself in and lets no one but his siblings through the door. The police, whose negotiator worries the man may take his own life, hope the family can end the stand-off quietly. The four, all in their fifties, have not met for fourteen years; a text from the eldest hints that something buried in the red earth is about to be brought up, and with it a grave injustice done thirty-three years ago. All day the narrator postpones the journey, walking in a nearby wood while memories return of four children born with the same brittleness, ignoring one another.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

311 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2022 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789650211387 (original)