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Days Of Peace

Rachel Shihor
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Days of Peacefollows Naomi throughJerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters,from an Arab beggarwoman in a park on a Sabbathafternoon to a professor of biblical archaeology ona life-long quest to produce a hand-lettered editionof the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the city passbefore our eyes: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentryworkshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital,a former leper colony and more. As Naomis marriagedeteriorates, she travels to Poland, where thesorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwineswith her nostalgia for the early romance of hernow-faded marriage. But while the drama unfoldsin the divorce court back in Jerusalem, Naomi ison her ultimate search—to find her place in thishistorical city.

Written in deceptively simple, almost conversationalprose, Rachel Shihors latest novel is apoignant, layered portrait of a city and a youngwomans quest to find herself. >Days Of PeaceSeagull Books9780857426994
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Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeliprime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the OsloPeace Accords and was assassinated by a rightwingideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a formerarchitect from secular Tel Aviv, has just marriedJochanan, a religious doctor who emigrated fromSweden.Days of Peacefollows Naomi throughJerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters,from an Arab beggarwoman in a park on a Sabbathafternoon to a professor of biblical archaeology ona life-long quest to produce a hand-lettered editionof the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the city passbefore our eyes: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentryworkshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital,a former leper colony and more. As Naomis marriagedeteriorates, she travels to Poland, where thesorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwineswith her nostalgia for the early romance of hernow-faded marriage. But while the drama unfoldsin the divorce court back in Jerusalem, Naomi ison her ultimate search—to find her place in thishistorical city.

Written in deceptively simple, almost conversationalprose, Rachel Shihors latest novel is apoignant, layered portrait of a city and a youngwomans quest to find herself.
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ISBN
9780857426994
Distributor
Seagull Books
Author
Rachel Shihor
COVER
Hardback
PAGES
176