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Aquarium : a novel / Yaara Shehori ; translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy.
Van Pelt Library PJ5055.41.E358 A7713 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheḥori, Yaʻarah, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Aḳṿaryum. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Families.
- Deaf children--Family relationships.
- Deaf people.
- Sisters.
- Israel.
- Sisters--Israel--Fiction.
- Deaf people--Israel--Fiction.
- Deaf children--Family relationships--Israel--Fiction.
- Deaf children.
- Families--Israel--Fiction.
- Social isolation--Fiction.
- Social isolation.
- Israel--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022]
- Summary:
- "An incredible story following two sisters, both deaf, raised in cult-like seclusion by deaf parents, and the shattering consequences that unfold when that isolation comes to an end. Sisters Lili and Dori Ackerman are deaf. Their parents--beautiful, despondent Anna; fearsome and admired Alex--are deaf too. Alex, a scrap-metal collector and sometime prophet, opposes any attempts to integrate with the world of the hearing; to escape its destructive influence, the girls are educated at home. Deafness is no disability, their father says, but an alternative way of life, preferable by far to that of the strident, hypocritical hearing. Lili and Dori grow up semi-feral, living in a world they have created together. Lili writes down everything that happens, just the facts. And Dori, the reader, follows her. On the block where the girls spend their childhood, the family is united against a hostile and alien world. They watch the hearing like they would fish in an aquarium. But when the outside world intrudes, the cracks that begin to form will span the rest of their lives. Separated from the family that ingrained in them a sense of uniqueness and alienation, Lili and Dori must relearn how to live, and how to tell their own stories."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Hebrew in 2016 by Keter, Israel."
- ISBN:
- 9781250829542
- 1250829542
- OCLC:
- 1316702385
- Publisher Number:
- 99987522951
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