סיפור הווה על פני הארץ

Marcel Ben-Hamo is forty-eight and still drifting. He keeps his distance from his father and, even more, from his sister, a single mother bringing up her little boy Zamir in a forgotten town near the coast, and sets off from his rented flat to revisit the spots in the country he thinks of as his own, where something intense, odd or absurd once befell him. Starting at the northern border and working his way south, he sticks to the margins Hebrew fiction rarely visits and distrusts symbolic landmarks like the Sea of Galilee. Lifelong outsider and dutiful conformist at once, he weighs the paths he never took, unable to choose a place to belong or a way of being a father, while ruining his body stop by stop.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

253 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2014 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad / Siman Kriah

Author's age

44 when first published