- Sapir Prize for Literature 2016 · Shortlist
לפעמים הבית הוא רוצח
Li-feamim ha-bayit hu rotseah
“Sometimes the House Is a Murderer” (title translated by AI)
Shimon Zimmer (שמעון צימר, born 1950)
English editions
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Uri, a musicologist, and Naama, a psychologist, live in a Galilee village that a summer brush fire is creeping towards. The blaze nears the soldiers' graveyard where their son lies, a son who died during his service, perhaps by his own hand, perhaps on the road, and their half-healed grief flares again. At the same time their daughter is leaving, or running away, on a long trip that will also be a search for who she is sexually. Bit by bit the family unravels.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 167 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Israel
- First published
- 2016 by Afik
- Author's age
- 66 when first published