ISBN: 9781558611900 - apples from the desert: selected stories: selected stories / by savyon liebrecht ; translated from the hebrew by marganit weinberger-rotman ... [et ... (helen rose scheuer jewish women's series) (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht's most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time. With a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer, Liebrecht's stories reveal the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private worlds of home and family. She depicts the personal tragedies--and the small acts of courage and reconciliation--that grow from the deep-rooted conflict between Arabs and Jews, women and men, and older and younger generations in present-day Israel. These stories create a finely nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel; at the same time, they reach toward truths that know no national boundaries. As Lily Rattok writes in her introduction, Liebrecht's skill as a writer, combined with her perceptiveness, her compassion, and her deep humanity, create a body of work that is a testament to the healing power of storytelling.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000. First edition. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket, price-clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 244 pages. Foreword by Grace Paley. Introduction by Lily Rattok. "Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories" gathers fourteen stories by Savyon Liebrecht, exploring Israeli family life, women's experiences, and the tensions of tradition, memory, and modernity. Translated from the Hebrew by Marganit Weinberger-Rotman, Barbara Harshav, and others. Savyon Liebrecht (b. 1948) is an Israeli writer and playwright, born in Germany to Holocaust survivors, and one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Hebrew fiction. "Apples from the Desert" was her first major collection published in English translation. …