And so is the bus
Subtitle: Jerusalem stories
By: Yossel Birstein ; translated from the Hebrew by Margaret Birstein, Hana Inbar, and Robert Manaster
Contributors: Birstein, Margaret, translator; Inbar, Hana, translator; Manaster, Robert, translator
Edition: First English translation.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781928755234
Other titles: Jerusalem stories
Work titles: Sipurim roḳdim bi-reḥovot Yerushalayim
Description: "Each of the twenty-one stories is an evocative "reporting" of the narrator's encounters with people who daily ride Jerusalem's bus lines, among them, housewives, Chasids, a blind man, a shoemaker - bus drivers themselves. The tone of Birstein's Yiddishized Hebrew is wry and empathic, savoring the individuality of these many characters"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 127-130).
Table of contents: title: Blood connection --; title: A wet man by the traffic light --; title: The crumb picker --; title: The love dance --; title: Something good in this country --; title: Customer on the way --; title: Herzl Boulevard on a rainy day --; title: The message --; title: Stolen glance --; title: Under the pressure of time --; title: Reflections --; title: My neighbor fro Guiloh --; title: Portrait of a line at a bus stop --; title: The man from the bus --; title: About patches and bears --; title: The broom --; title: The fifth smile --; title: The bus line finisher --; title: Sausage in honey --; title: The substitute --; title: How a story gets cooking.