Dimensions
126 x 197 x 22mm
They left Eastern Europe for Israel and emerged, six generations later, in America: Yochanan and his wife Esther, who loved long and happily despite Esther's affair with the local baker; her granddaughter, Avra the thief; Miriam, a grenade-throwing seamstress; the old man Eliezer who ran with his twin grandson around Jerusalem's city walls; a little girl Rebecca who drew more than mere likenesses in the lids of the baker's boxes.
Using births, death and family legends, Nomi Eve tells the tale of five generations, grafting her own life to the orchard of her ancestors. Here are stories of the sorrow of immigrants and the joy of pioneers, of family secrets and tragedies and of how people meet and fall in love.
