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Shaul Levin
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
עברית
Description
A budding writer flees the Nazis unharmed but arrives in New York too late to marry his sweetheart. Brokenhearted, he becomes a locksmith (the source of lovely metaphors) and puts down his pen for 57 years. Unknown to him, his lost novel, called The History of Love was published years ago in Chile under a different man's name. When a stranger asks a widow to translate The History of Love from Spanish for an exorbitant sum, the mysteries deepen, particularly...
Author
Publisher
Kinneret, Zmora, Dvir Publishing House Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
עברית
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
4) Bet gadol
Author
Publisher
Maḥbarot le-sifrut
Pub. Date
2011
Language
עברית
Description
Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
עברית
Description
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter...
