MICHAL GOVRIN /
LITTERATURE
Sabin Wespieser editeur
'How is one to tell? How is one to hold on to the shreds of our story?’ The question is asked by Ilana Tzuriel, a rebellious left-wing architect who has left Israel and returned years later, of her father, an ardent dreamer from the pioneering years of the State. In the year following her father’s death Ilana writes snapshots of confession to him; of things that they would never have dared to say to one another out loud – of betrayal and faithfulness to the father and his legacy, to the land and to the Jewish story – of a stormy love- and creative life, tossed about among the capitals of the world.
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'How is one to tell? How is one to hold on to the shreds of our story?’ The question is asked by Ilana Tzuriel, a rebellious left-wing architect who has left Israel and returned years later, of her father, an ardent dreamer from the pioneering years of the State. In the year following her father’s death Ilana writes snapshots of confession to him; of things that they would never have dared to say to one another out loud – of betrayal and faithfulness to the father and his legacy, to the land and to the Jewish story – of a stormy love- and creative life, tossed about among the capitals of the world.
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