A Good Place for the Night: Stories
Savyon Liebrecht, one of Israel's most distinguished and popular authors, has won an avid readership in the U. S. for her rich, believable fiction about affairs of the heart. Her newest collection includes seven long stories named for placesMunich, America, Tel Aviv, Hiroshimaand features Israelis abroad, women and men in love and in trouble far away from home. A woman living congenially in Hiroshima for nine years becomes involved in a love triangle with an American and a Japanese, and learns with chilling finality that she can never be at home in this city of the Japanese holocaust. The tables turn on an Israeli journalist, in Munich to cover the trial of a Nazi war criminal, when he becomes a witness to anti-Arab violence and to the murder of a beautiful Muslim woman he has secretly desired. In these searing stories setting becomes an accomplice to fate, and history intrudes into the heat of passion. In the end, A Good Place for the Night makes us realize that we are all wanderers, and the safe haven of "home" is only an idea.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0892553200
ISBN13:9780892553204
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Persea Books
Length:249 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I've read much of Savyon Liebrecht's work. I was introducted to her at Rutgers University and have followed her work. Apples From The Desert and A Man, A Woman and A Man were completely satisfying. Wonderful writing, interesting story. A Good Place For The Night was different. Writing still first class but the stories were difficult and other world. I enjoyed it but I would not as easily recommend it and the other two.
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