House of Windows
Subtitle: Portraits From a Jerusalem Neighborhood
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Broadway
Published: March 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780767910194
Subjects: Morashah (Jerusalem); History - General History; Travel; Essays & Travelogues; Middle East - Israel; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Description; Description and travel; Jerusalem
First sentence: with its flight of worn limestone steps, its slender columns and iron banisters, rising at intervals into delicate archways, the house called to mind a host of mismatched objects and structures, the entire assortment of which might suggest, together, something of its quirky elegance, but none of which alone does justice to the building's eccentric proportions.