by Meir Shalev · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257235548
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«Fontanelle» is the novel by Meir Shalev published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback, with 574 pages, in German.
The novel follows a man whose fontanelle never closed, a trait that makes him perceive more than others and conditions his life. Through his gaze, the history of the Joffe family is reconstructed, with quirks, secrets and wounds. Meir Shalev weaves memory, identity and family relationships with humour and lyricism, in a story set in Israel.
The novel was originally published in Hebrew in 2002; the 2006 German edition belongs to Diogenes' detebe series.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Israeli fiction and family stories with an unusual narrator.
Meir Shalev was an Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages.
