The women my father knew
By: Savyon Liebrecht ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
Contributors: Silverston, Sondra
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780892553563
Subjects: Fiction; Authors
Work titles: Ha-Nashim shel aba
Description: A literary mystery, set in New York City and bohemian Tel Aviv. After his successful first novel, Meir suffers writers block. Then his father, poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died decades earlier, contacts him and they arrange to meet. Fragmented, troubling memories of a forgotten childhood time spent alone with his father rise to Meirs consciousness. While solving these riddles of the past, Meir inhabits the borderland between memory and artistic creation. There he finds emotions so deeply tangled in his being that they can only be expressed through art. He begins to write againa story of a loving son who witnessed a seduction and perhaps also a murder.
Notes: Originally published: Ha-Nashim shel aba. Jerusalem : Keter, 2005.

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