by Meir Shalev · Diogenes Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257233261
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«Im Haus der Großen Frau» is Meir Shalev's family novel, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (459 pages, in German).
Rafael, the only male in his family to reach fifty-two, watches over the irrigation canals in the Negev desert. Sensing his end is near, he seeks solitude and imagines telling his sister a family story shaped by the women who raised him: his mother, his grandmother, and three aunts.
Translation by Ruth Achlama from the 1998 Hebrew original; 2002 edition. Diogenes-Taschenbuch 23326.
For fiction readers and also for those seeking contemporary Israeli literature.
Meir Shalev was an Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages.
