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Apples from the Desert

Selected Stories

Savyon LiebrechtSeries: Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women
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Pages
240
Year
2000
Language
English
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY

About

Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht's most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time. With a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer, Liebrecht's stories reveal the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private worlds of home and family. She depicts the personal tragedies--and the small acts of courage and reconciliation--that grow from the deep-rooted conflict between Arabs and Jews, women and men, and older and younger generations in present-day Israel. These stories create a finely nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel; at the same time, they reach toward truths that know no national boundaries. As Lily Rattok writes in her introduction, "Liebrecht's skill as a writer, combined with her perceptiveness, her compassion, and her deep humanity, create a body of work that is a testament to the healing power of storytelling."

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Jewish
  • History
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Jewish Studies
  • Social Science
  • Middle Eastern
  • World
  • Political Science

Extended Details

  • SeriesHelen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women

    Reviews

    "These finely wrought stories of private lives shed light on a terrifying political conflict. [Liebrecht] is the equal of far better-known Israeli authors like Amos Oz. She deserves to have more of her work translated."
    The New York Times Book Review
    "Savyon Liebrecht is one of [Israel's] most popular authors. Her latest volume has been on the top of the bestseller list since it appeared, and for good reason. . . . She writes intelligently, without irony or condescension, about ordinary people in situations that reveal the depths and passions of their lives. Her style is clear and accurate, yet her prose is also capable of rising to great heig
    Jerusalem Post
    "Liebrecht's writing is a kind of signpost of modern Hebrew prose. With her skilled hands, she blends the best ingredients of contemporary literary norms . . . a perfectly orchestrated fusion of the personal and psychological with the real and social, in a design rooted in a diverse, lively, and thoroughly Israeli reality."
    Ha'aretz (Israel)

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    Savyon LiebrechtAuthor