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Days of Peace

English

By (author): Rachel Shihor

Translated by: Esther Frumkin, Sara Tropper

Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Peace Accords and was assassinated by a right-wing ideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a former architect from secular Tel Aviv, has just married Jochanan, a religious doctor who emigrated from Sweden.

Days of Peace follows Naomi through 1950s Jerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters, from an Arab beggar-woman in a park on a Sabbath afternoon to a professor of biblical archaeology on a life-long quest to produce a hand-lettered edition of the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the city pass: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentry workshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital, a former leper colony, and more. As Naomi's marriage deteriorates, she travels to Poland, where the sorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwines with her nostalgia for the early romance of her now-faded marriage. But as the drama unfolds in the divorce court back in Jerusalem, Naomi is on her ultimate search-to find her place in this historical city.

Written in deceptively simple, almost conversational prose, Rachel Shihor's novel is a poignant layered portrait of a city, a new-born nation, and a young woman's quest to find herself.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857426994

About Rachel Shihor

Rachel Shihor has written several works on philosophy and a bilingual HebrewEnglish collection of short stories Stalin Is Dead: Stories and Aphorisms on Animals Poets and Other Earthly Creatures. She lives in Tel Aviv.

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