Two she-bears
By: Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman
Contributors: Schoffman, Stuart, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780805243291
Subjects: Suicide; Fiction
Other titles: 2 she bears
Work titles: Shetayim dubim
Description: In the year 1930, three farmers committed suicide here . . . but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered." This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and independent thinker in this small farming community, writing seventy years later about that murder and about two charismatic men she loves and is trying to forgive--her grandfather and her husband--and her son, whom she mourns and misses.
Notes: Translation from Hebrew of: Shetayim dubim.