Meir Shalev, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-019040-8
The biblical rivalry between Esau and his younger twin, Jacob, who tricks him out of their father's blessing, serves as the prototype for this yeasty, vibrant and sprawling modern-day family saga from Israeli novelist Shalev (The Blue Mountain)....
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Meir Shalev, Harmony, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-71718-4
In this innovative and skillfully woven analysis of biblical firsts, Shalev (A Pigeon and a Boy), an Israeli columnist, probes the significance and underlying stories associated with 11 of the Bible's "firsts." He investigates the meaning of the...
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Meir Shalev, trans. from Hebrew by Joanna Chen. Schocken, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4351-2
Shalev (My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner), an Israeli novelist and amateur gardener, endears in this delightful memoir cum gardening guide. Inspired by his Hasidic grandfather’s Ukrainian garden with fruit trees inspired by the
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Meir Shalev, trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. Schocken, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4329-1
A versatile writer of fiction, memoir, biblical studies, and children’s stories, Shalev (A Pigeon and a Boy) delivers a stunning, Faulknerian novel about a family deeply rooted to the land. The setting is a moshava, or Jewish settlement, originally...
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Meir Shalev, Author, Barbara Harshav, Translator Ecco Press $25 (315p) ISBN 978-0-88001-635-3
""A mensh trakht un Gott lakht."" This Yiddish expression meaning ""man plans and God laughs"" appears more than once in Shalev's appealing third novel (after Esau), in which mythic storytelling lucidly elaborates on the workings of love and fate....
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Meir Shalev, Author, Yossi Abolafia, Illustrator, Dagmar Herrmann, Translator Wellington Publishing Inc $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-922984-02-2
Young Mortimer Dunne has a problem. He's proud of his mother--a TV reporter--but his writer father ``does nothing--only hammers away at the typewriter and embarrasses his son.'' Furthermore, Dad dresses inappropriately, snores at PTA meetings,...
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Meir Shalev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Aaron Asher Books $22.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-016691-5
Passionate, ribald and tender, bursting with dozens of interwoven tales, this lushly nostalgic novel (a bestseller in Israel) records the loves, hates, infidelities, feuds and enterprises that fuel one community over three decades. It also gently...
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Meir Shalev, Author, Evan Fallenberg, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg. Schocken $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4251-5
In this stunning tale, Shalev masterfully interweaves two remarkable personal stories. Yair Mendelsohn, a middle-aged Israeli tour guide favored with bird watchers, learns that one of his new American clients fought in the Palmach, a clandestine...
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Meir Shalev, trans. from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg. Schocken, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4287-4
In this tender, hilarious memoir of his grandparents' early life as new settlers to Palestine, Israeli author Shalev (A Pigeon and a Boy) evokes all his idealism and disappointments in Zionism. A new GE vacuum cleaner sent by Uncle Yeshayahu in...
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