Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Marsha Pomerantz, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Marsha Pomerantz. Persea $23.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-89255-266-5
Chronicling a romantic fling initiated in a nursing home, of all places, this convincing if sometimes heavy-handed first novel by respected Israeli short-story writer Liebrecht takes readers on a trip into the adulterous psyche. Hamutal meets Saul...
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Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Sondra Silverston, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. Persea $14 (249p) ISBN 978-0-89255-320-4
This collection by one of Israel's most popular authors turns upon issues of family, place and disconnection, and the stories have the dreamy, evocative smoothness of underwater films. Hadassah, whose mother moves with another woman's...
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Savyon Liebrecht, Author, Jeffrey M. Green, Translator, Barbara Harshav, Translator Feminist Press $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55861-190-0
As Grace Paley notes in her foreword to the first English translation of popular Israeli writer Leibrecht's work, these dozen stories are ""personal--but they are also fierce pleas for understanding and justice."" Their themes are somber: the enmity
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Savyon Liebrecht, trans. from the Hebrew by Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann. Europa, $18 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-60945-986-4
A Los Angeles–based ghostwriter revisits his past in Israel in the elegant if uneventful latest from Liebrecht (Apples from the Desert). As a nine-year-old boy, Micha is the only member of his family to befriend Adella, 18, the arranged bride for...
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