A Pigeon and a Boy - Rilegato

Shalev, Meir

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ISBN 10: 0805242511 ISBN 13: 9780805242515

Casa editrice: Schocken Books, 2007

Riassunto

Mortally wounded on the battlefield during the 1948 war for Israeli independence, a young pigeon handler dispatches a final bird carrying a message to the girl he loves, while many years later, that girl's middle-aged son falls in love with a childhood friend and receives a special gift from his mother on her deathbed. 35,000 first printing.

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Praise for A Pigeon and a Boy

"[A] stunning tale... This gem of a story about the power of love, which won Israel's Brenner Prize, brims with luminous originality."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An excellent book [that]touches and breaks your heart and leaves you deep in thought about what was and what could have been."
--Hatzofeh (Tel Aviv)
Praise for Meir Shalev's Previous Work

"Meir Shalev, the Woody Allen of the desert, is an Israeli author one absolutely has to read!"
--Elle

"Shalev creates a world that has the richness of invention and obsessiveness of dreams. He delivers both startling imagery and passionate, original characters whose destinies we follow through love, loss, laughter, and death."
--The New York Times Book Review

"It is as though the Song of Solomon had been rewritten by Gabriel Garcia Marquez... You get a master class in the storyteller's art."
--The Daily Telegraph (London)

L'autore:

Meir Shalev was born in 1948 on Nahalal, Israel’s first moshav, and is one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have been best sellers in Israel, Holland, and Germany. In 1999 the author was awarded the Juliet Club Prize (Italy). He has also received the Prime Minister’s Prize (Israel), the Chiavari (Italy), the Entomological Prize (Israel), the WIZO Prize (France, Israel, and Italy), and for A Pigeon and a Boy, the Brenner Prize, Israel’s highest literary recognition. A columnist for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Shalev lives in Jerusalem and in northern Israel with his wife and children.

Evan Fallenberg (www.evanfallenberg.com) translates fiction by well-known and upcoming Israeli writers. He teachs creative writing at Bar Ilan University in Israel and is the author of Light Fell, a novel.

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• Editore: Schocken Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805242511
• ISBN 13: 9780805242515
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 311