הלשון נושלה

Next door to Amir's mother's house in Mevo Yam stands a deserted psychiatric clinic in a wild garden that almost nobody notices. It is Charlie who first suspects it hides something sinister, and the siblings Lucinda and Yossi, unusually knowing for their age, are drawn to it for reasons of their own. Amir would rather nothing changed, but he is swept into secrets, peril and old magic. A novel called The Buried Heart has an eleven-year-old hero with Amir's name, while a young woman adrift in Tel Aviv bears the name of its heroine, Talia Pinto, and the invented world begins leaking into theirs, possibly through the pendant around Lucinda's neck.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

595 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2021 by Pardes

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9781618388223 (original)