אבא, בן, סבתא דינה

Three family novellas make up this triptych, set on the border between Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim and the secular world, with characters who leave the neighbourhood, return and are pulled back again. In each, a parent is missing. The author turns to his own father, the writer Yehoshua Bar-Yosef, who abandoned the family and then came back; Golda, who survived the Holocaust while her family did not, dreads losing her prodigy son should he prove to be the Messiah; and Michael, who lost his father in the Yom Kippur War, escapes from desire into piety and ends up turning his back on his own five children.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

180 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2020 by Siman Kriah / Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

87 when first published