1930s Israel
20th century Israeli history
A01=Meir Shalev
Author_Meir Shalev
Category=FBA
Category=FYT
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Israeli contemporary fiction
Jewish characters
Product details
- ISBN 9781841951140
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers.
When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh; Jacob, owner of hundreds of canaries and host to the four meals which lend the book its narrative structure; and Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair which his mother cut off in childhood.
During the four meals, which take place intermittently over several decades, Zayde slowly comes to understand why these three men consider him their son and why all three participate in raising him.
MEIR SHALEV lives in Jerusalem, where he is widely known for his work as a TV presenter and journalist. He is the author of numerous children's books as well as novels, including the highly acclaimed Esau and Roman Russi. He introduces Samuel (The Pocket Canons II).
