Meir Shalev

Yair Mendelsohn, un guía israelí que acompaña a turistas interesados en el avistamiento de pájaros traba amistad con un cliente que luchó en la Guerra de la Independencia de Israel y le habla de las últimas horas de un muchacho enamorado de su novia, a la que mandó una carta con una de sus palomas mensajeras. El tierno amor del chico de las palomas y el pasado familiar de Yair están misteriosamente ligados, y también su presente, atrapado entre el amor que siente por su mujer Liora y la peligrosa pasión que Tirzah, su amiga de la infancia, despierta en él.

"""È andata cosi"", dice il titolo dell''ultimo romanzo di Meir Shalev, narratore israeliano dalla straordinaria vena poetica e ironica al tempo stesso. Se le sue storie sono sempre un po'' sospese fra verita e fantasia, fra passato reale e liberta dell''immaginazione, questa volta non c''e equivoco di sorta. Shalev ci racconta qui la storia della sua famiglia, che e stata, negli anni venti del secolo scorso, fra i fondatori di Nahalal, un villaggio agricolo nel Nord d''Israele. Quasi il simbolo stesso del ritorno del popolo ebraico alla terra, intesa come ideale di riscatto storico ma anche come suolo, da coltivare con le mani e con il cuore. Shalev e infatti uno scrittore profondamente ""campestre"": anche nei suoi romanzi piu cittadini si sente il profumo della terra. Qui il personaggio centrale e la nonna che, pur vivendo in campagna, e maniaca della pulizia. La sua ossessione, affrontata con affetto ed egual misura di sarcasmo, innesca i ricordi. Shalev torna a Nahalal, rievoca l''amore dei suoi genitori, le gioie e i dolori della sua famiglia. Lo fa con il consueto e straordinario garbo letterario, creando situazioni sempre in bilico fra il verosimile e l''impossibile. Che pero qui ci dice essere tutto frutto della realta, della vita vissuta. "

Relat realista, tendre i amb un toc d’humor.Edad: Entre 7 y 10

Todas las abuelas son especiales, pero algunas más que otras.En Nahalal, el pueblo donde nació Shalev, conocemos a su asombrosa abuela Tonia, que llegó a Palestina en barco desde Rusia y pasó toda su vida luchando contra el peor enemigo de su familia en aquellas nuevas tierras: la suciedad.A Tonia no se la vio nunca sin un trapo al hombro. Recibia a los visitantes fuera de casa y solo permitia a unos pocos privilegiados entrar en su inmaculada morada. Hilarante y conmovedora, la historia de la abuela Tonia y sus reglas cobran vida en un relato que gira alrededor de la llegada de una enorme y reluciente aspiradora americana, regalo de un tio que habia emigrado a Estados Unidos.Mezclando magistralmente realidad y ficcion, Shalev crea personajes inolvidables y traza un retrato emotivo de su familia y de toda una epoca.

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One of Israels most celebrated noveliststhe acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boygives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. 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 who is writing seventy years later about that murder, about two charismatic men she loves and is trying to forgiveher grandfather and her husbandand about her son, whom she mourns and misses. In a story rich with the grit, humor, and near-magical evocation of Israeli rural life for which Meir Shalev is beloved by readers, Ruta weaves a tale of friendship between men, and of love and betrayal, which carries us from British Palestine to present-day Israel, where forgiveness, atonement, and understanding can finally happen.

The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know. The first kiss in the Bible is not a kiss of love. The first love in the Bible is not the love of a man and a woman. The first hatred in the Bible is the hatred of a man toward his wife. The first laugh in the Bible is also the last. In Beginnings, Meir Shalev reintroduces us to the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament, exploring these and many more of the Bibles unexpected "firsts." Combining penetrating wit, deep empathy, and impressive knowledge of the Bible, he probes each episode to uncover nuances and implications that a lesser writer would overlook, and his nontraditional, nonreligious interpretations of the famous stories of the Bible take them beyond platitudes and assumptions to the love, fear, tragedy, and inspiration at their heart. Literary, inquisitive, and honest, Shalev makes these stories come alive in all their complicated beauty, and though these stories are ancient, their resonance remains intensely contemporary.

A mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotionfrom the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev. During the 1948 War of Independencea time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messagesa gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon. The bird is carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend. His growing passion for her, along with a gift from his mother on her deathbed, becomes the key to a life he thought no longer possible. Unforgettable in both its particulars and its sweep, A Pigeon and A Boy is a tale of lovers then and nowof how deeply we love, of what home is, and why we, like pigeons trained to fly in one direction only, must eventually return to it. In a voice that is at once playful, wise, and altogether beguiling, Meir Shalev tells a story as universal as war and as intimate as a winged declaration of love.

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalevs birth. Here we meet Shalevs amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the familys biggest enemy in their new land: dirt. Grandma Tonia was never seen without a cleaning rag over her shoulder. She received visitors outdoors. She allowed only the most privileged guests to enter her spotless house. Hilarious and touching, Grandma Tonia and her regulations come richly to life in a narrative that circles around the arrival into the familys dusty agricultural midst of the big, shiny American sweeper sent as a gift by Great-uncle Yeshayahu (he who had shockingly emigrated to the sinful capitalist heaven of Los Angeles!). America, to little Meir and to his forebears, was a land of hedonism and enchanting progress; of tempting luxuries, dangerous music, and degenerate gum-chewing; and of women with painted fingernails. The sweeper, a stealth weapon from Grandpa Aharons American brother meant to beguile the hardworking socialist household with a bit of American ease, was symbolic of the conflicts and visions of the family in every respect. The fate of Tonias svieeperrrhidden away for decades in a spotless closed-off bathroom after its initial useis a family mystery that Shalev determines to solve. The result, in this cheerful translation by Evan Fallenberg, is pure delight, as Shalev brings to life the obsessive but loving Tonia, the pioneers who gave his childhood its spirit of wonder, and the grit and humor of people building ever-new lives.