ʻAl kamah batim = The sun over the houses / Mikhal Dinur Ṿetsler.
על כמה בתים = The sun over the houses מיכל דינור וצלר.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinnur Wetzler, Michal, 1977- author.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Daughters--Israel--Fiction.

Daughters.

Fathers--Israel--Death--Fiction.

Fathers.

Psychic trauma in children--Israel--Fiction.

Psychic trauma in children.

Psychic trauma--Fiction.

Psychic trauma.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Bereavement--Fiction.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

343 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Title on title page verso: Sun over the houses

Place of Publication:

[Tel Aviv] : Shetayim, [784 = 2024]

[תל אביב] : שתים, [תשפ"ד = 2024]

Summary:

""Dad is dead and you have to come," she said in a tone that tries to maintain its stability. "What did she die of?" I asked, and Eti's words, "You must come," echo and threaten inside me. "A kiss of death, a good return death surrounded by his wife, family and friends," she shot again. "What did he die of? I know? From alcohol, depression, sadness, despair. With all his problems in the end he went into cardiac arrest in the middle of the pizzeria and died." She took a breath, came to her senses and returned to her angry and confident tone. "I'm not burying him without you, do you hear? You are taking a plane now, and for your successful husband to stay there, he has nothing to look for here. Come to the funeral and feast, like a normal daughter, help me with everything. The story of the house, and then go back to your woods with the bears and the tigers." Shlomi left her family and her home years ago. She lives in California with Rob, an American doctor who believes her stories about a warm and happy childhood with a large family in Israel. But when her father dies, she finds herself back in Israel, in a house she wanted to forget, in a meeting with people and memories she has forgotten, and everything she tried to rebuild falls apart in front of her eyes and inside her. About how many houses he wrote about identity. About this distance we make to run away from ourselves and the truth, and about this moment that always comes, when the truth catches up with us. How much pain is there in it? And how much relief?"-- Back cover (translation).

"שלומית עזבה את משפחתה ואת ביתה לפני שנים. היא חיה בקליפורניה עם רוב, רופא אמריקאי שמאמין לסיפורים שלה על ילדות חמה ומאושרת עם משפחה גדולה בישראל. אבל כשאבא שלה נפטר היא מוצאת את עצמה שוב בארץ, בבית שביקשה לשכוח, בפגישה עם אנשים וזיכרונות שמחקה, וכל מה שניסתה לבנות מחדש מתפרק מול עיניה ובתוכה. על כמה בתים הוא ספר על זהות. על המרחק הזה שאנחנו עושים כדי לברוח מעצמנו ומהאמת, ועל הרגע הזה שתמיד מגיע, כשהאמת משיגה אותנו. כמה כאב יש בו. וכמה הקלה"--Back cover.

Notes:

Novel.

ISBN:

9789659313457

9659313454

OCLC:

1436914513

Publisher Number:

155500000682 danacode