A pigeon and a boy
By: Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg.
Contributors: Fallenberg, Evan.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780805242515
Work titles: Yonah ṿe-naʻar.
Description: During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend.