Lit in Translation

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)

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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