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Four Meals
Meir Shalev
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Description for Four Meals
Paperback. A virtuoso performance of spellbinding storytelling, sensuous, hilarious, compassionate and profound. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236. 336 pages. A story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers. When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight: 276. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara.
Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers.
When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh; Jacob, owner of hundreds of canaries and host to the four meals which lend the book its narrative structure; and Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair which his mother cut off in childhood.
During the four meals, which take place intermittently over several ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841951140
SKU
V9781841951140
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Ref
99-1
About Meir Shalev
MEIR SHALEV lives in Jerusalem, where he is widely known for his work as a TV presenter and journalist. He is the author of numerous children's books as well as novels, including the highly acclaimed Esau and Roman Russi. He introduces Samuel (The Pocket Canons II).
Reviews for Four Meals
It's as though the Song of Solomon had been rewritten by Gabriel Garcia Marquez . . . a master class in the storyteller's art.
Daily Telegraph
Shalev's novel, plump with incident and character, is structured around the four meals that Jacob, a candidate father, prepares for Zayde, but in between Shalev brings on side ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Shalev's novel, plump with incident and character, is structured around the four meals that Jacob, a candidate father, prepares for Zayde, but in between Shalev brings on side ... Read more