Bandiṭ
Subtitle: Bandit
By: Itamar Orlev
Series: Sifriyah la-ʻam -- 697; Sifriyah la-ʻam -- 697.
Publisher: Hotsaʼat ʻAm ʻoved; Am Oved Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tel Aviv
Language: heb
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9789651325045
Subjects: Israelis; Fiction; Fathers and sons
Description: Twenty years after running away with his mother and siblings from his violent father and immigrating from Poland to Israel, and shortly after his wife takes their five-year-old son and leaves him, Tadeusz decides to visit his homeland. In Poland he finds his aging father in a retirement home for war veterans in Warsaw. The two men set out on an unexpected journey to the small village where Stefan grew up. As the journey advances, Stefan recounts his experiences from World War Two, painting a shocking picture of the cruelty he experienced and witnessed and casting a heavy shadow on the landscapes they pass.