Four Mothers
Contributors: Dalya Bilu (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780312205478
Subjects: Modern fiction; Reading Group Guide; Literary; Hebrew (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction
Description: "Shifra Horn's beautifully imagined novel tells the story of four generations of women in one family against the background of one hundred years in Jerusalem."--BOOK JACKET.

"The story begins with Amal, of the fifth generation, who is despondent over her husband's desertion after the birth of her son. Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are overjoyed, because the birth of a healthy boy means that their family's long curse has been broken - there is no daughter to inherit it. Come, listen, they say to Amal, listen to the story of the curse that foreshadowed every father's disappearance.

Be comforted by your "four mothers": Mazal, the orphan, whose ill-fated marriage initiates the curse; her daughter Sara, whose beautiful golden hair becomes a symbol for her power to heal; Sara's daughter Pnina-Mazal, the unwanted child whose talent for knowing others' thoughts brings her both joy and sorrow; and her daughter Geula, Amal's mother, whose sharp intellect and idealism are her gift and her burden."--BOOK JACKET.