Family Orchard: A Novel - Hardcover

Eve, Nomi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375410767 ISBN 13: 9780375410765

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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New York, Alfred A. Kmopf, 2000. ISBN: 0375410767. Cartoné con sobrecubierta. 24,5 x 17,5 cm. 316 págs. Ilustrado en blanco y negro. EN INGLÉS.

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A novel chronicling nearly two hundred years in the lives of a family of immigrants in Jerusalem captures the love affairs, legends, family secrets, triumphs, and tragedies of six generations.

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ultigenerational saga encompassing two hundred years in the life of an unforgettable family--a book of love stories, ill-fated and blessed, sensuous as a dream, unfolding in a time and a place where fable is more potent than fact, where the imagination is more powerful than any truth, where the line between myth and history has all but dissolved: Jerusalem, from the early years of the nineteenth century to the present.

They left Eastern Europe for Israel and emerged, six generations later, in America: Esther, the family matriarch, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into the baker's arms; her granddaughter, Avra the thief, who stole a cow's tongue and married a man with strong fists and very fast feet; Miriam, a seamstress who sewed spells into her cloths and whose mesmerizing beauty inadvertently transformed Kovna's House of Study into a container of pure carnal frustration; the twins Zohar and Moshe, who ran across the walls of the Old City as boys, and  as men faced a

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375410767
• ISBN 13: 9780375410765
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316