Śeḥiyat boḳer = A morning swim / ʻIlit Morag.
שחיית בוקר = A morning swim עילית מורג.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morag, Ilit, author.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Young women--Israel--Fiction.

Young women.

Physical fitness--Israel--Fiction.

Physical fitness.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

235 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Title on title page verso: Morning swim

Place of Publication:

Ḥevel Modiʻin : Kineret : Zemorah : Devir, [784 = 2024]

חבל מודיעין : כנרת : זמורה : דביר, [תשפ"ד = 2024]

Summary:

""Tali dips the tips of her toes in the water. It's a habit of years. One moment of hesitation before the immersion. There are those who jump head first, scattering bright splashes around them. There are those who slowly descend the ladder to accustom the body to the temperature of the water, step by step. Whereas she dips a careful foot and then sits on the edge of the pool and looks around. She's always loved it that way." Before each work day, Tali starts the morning with a twenty-six minute swim with two minutes of stretching and a minute of walking to the locker room and another minute to get the shampoo, conditioner and soap out of the locker at the local pool. At the same time, she fantasizes about practicing yoga and meditation, breathing and walking barefoot in the desert. She is married, some would say happily, to Yair, a mother of three children and lives in a detached house in Sharon, but a surprising meeting with her former lover, Guy, tests her famous restraint, and rocks the ship of her bourgeois life. Now she must reexamine her relationships and the whole of the small moments of her life. Tali tries to keep all the balls in the air, but things start to fall apart and she has to decide, swimming or yoga; stay or leave; reality or fantasy; The safe life with Yair, or the attraction to Guy, which is, to a large extent, the attraction to the twenty-something year old Tali who is still standing at the edge of the pool waiting to jump. In a surprising morning swim, Ilit Morag, in restrained and confident writing, draws a world in its entirety through Tali's feelings and reflections. With delicate touches, she unfolds before us the mental map of a woman in her forties, a career woman, a wife and a mother who is, so to speak, an example of success, and on which she outlines the cracks and flaws that time, routine and compromises have left behind. Ilit Morg was born in Dimona and grew up in Tel Aviv and Rome. She studied for a bachelor's degree in psychology in Be'er Sheva and a master's degree in organizational behavior in Tel Aviv. Ilit lives in Herzliya, married and a mother, organizational consultant and lecturer. Morning Swim is her first book."-- Translated from back over.

Notes:

Novel.

ISBN:

9789655747423

9655747425

OCLC:

1436913603

Publisher Number:

000300143803 danacode