Apples from the Desert Selected Stories

Name: Apples from the Desert Selected Stories
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ISBN: 9781558612358

ISBN-10: 1558612351

ISBN-13: 9781558612358

Edition: 2000 (Unabridged)

Authors: Savyon Liebrecht, Grace Paley, Lily Rattok

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Acirc; Acirc; Acirc; Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Her short fiction explores the everyday tragedies that emanate from strained relationships between Arabs and Jews, women and men, older and younger generations in present-day Israel. According to the Washington Post Book World , her "engrossing and skillful tales take you through the lives of real people, to the heart of their emotional and moral being." Liebrecht reveals the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private world of the home with a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 4/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Grace Paley is a writer, teacher, feminist, and activist. Her Collected Stories (FSG 1994) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.



Foreword



Introduction




A Room on the Roof



Apples from the Desert



A Married Woman



Hayuta's Engagement Party



Excision



Written in Stone



The Road to Cedar City



"What Am I Speaking, Chinese?" She Said to Him



Mother's Photo Album



Morning in the Park Among the Nannies



Compassion



The Homesick Scientist