The loves of Judith / Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shalev, Meir, 1948-2023.

Contributor:

Harshav, Barbara, 1940-

Standardized Title:

Ke-yamim aḥadim. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

315 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1999.

Summary:

When Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine after World War II, she is the center of everyone's attention - especially Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair, which his mother cut off in childhood; Globerman, a coarse cattle dealer who loves women, money, and meat; and Jacob, a farmer who gives up his wife, the most beautiful woman in the village, to turn his energies toward raising canaries and wooing Judith with all his might. For ten years the three men strive to win Judith's exclusive love, but she will not agree to marry any one of them. In her eleventh year in the village she gives birth to a son named Zayde who looks like all three men. All three consider him their son, and all three participate in raising him. This extraordinary quasi-mythological tale is told many years later by an adult Zayde, as he learns the details of his mother's life over meals elaborately prepared for him by Jacob.

ISBN:

0880016353

OCLC:

39013793