Shifra Horn, Author , trans. from the Hebrew by H. Sacks. St. Martin's $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26590-8
This entertaining second novel (after Four Mothers) from Israeli writer Horn opens in 1948, when widowed Angela and her young daughter, Rosa, move from the Mamilla quarter of Jerusalem to a beautiful villa in Old Katamon, recently abandoned by the...
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Shifra Horn, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20547-8
Five generations of Jewish women suffer through personal and political turmoil in this Jerusalem-set novel, a bestseller in Israel. When relatives correctly predict that her husband will leave her after their son's birth, Amal inquires into the...
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Shifra Horn, Author, Horn Shifra, Author, Ora Cummings, Translator Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (313p) ISBN 978-1-57566-111-7
It's hardly common knowledge that the Japanese have the most advanced bathroom plumbing on earth: electrically heated toilet seats with an array of buttons to control temperature, produce sprays of cleansing water, stereophonic music and...
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