היה היתה

Before cancer killed her in 2001, Pazit, a brilliant and contradictory Tel Aviv woman, asked that every trace of her be wiped out, and she left no children, no body of work and no possessions. She was a fine translator with a passion for books who methodically destroyed everything she wrote. The author spent a decade interviewing relatives, lovers, neighbours, the physician who cared for her, workmates and friends from childhood, many of them, like Pazit, born to Polish survivors of the Holocaust, and built from their voices a portrait of her and of their generation. The book keeps asking why anyone should write about a woman who wanted to vanish.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

Set in

Israel

First published

2018 by Achuzat Bayit

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789655560701 (original)