מוקס נוקס

The narrator looks back on a summer job he took at sixteen in a factory on a kibbutz, his friendship with two other teenagers there, and his fascination with the plant's solitary secretary, whom he believes is sleeping with his father, a devout and furious man. In the present, living in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, he begins a relationship with an older woman that unsettles his sense of closeness and of how the world works. Ghosts surface through the cracks of everyday life, testing him as a son, a brother, a lover and a would-be artist. Determined to break with everything his overbearing father stands for, he throws himself into far-off traditions, chiefly an almost obsessive study of Latin etymology.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2011 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789655178913 (original)