Meir Shalev

"A joyful round of the seasons in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow. On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel Mountains rising up to the west, Meir Shalev has a large garden, 'neither neatly organized nor well-kept,' as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and 'house dwellers,' using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree; rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway; does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives. The book will attract gardeners and literary readers alike, with its appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on earth, and for our borrowed time on a particular patch of it--enhanced, the author continually reminds us, by our honest, respectful dealings with all manner of beings who inhabit it with us"

Notes from a Writer's Eden

My Wild Garden

A young, dying pigeon handler dispatches a bird with a message for the girl he loves, while many years later, that girl's middle-aged son falls in love with a childhood friend and receives a gift from his mother on her deathbed.

A Pigeon and a Boy

Hillel Halkin

The Blue Mountain is the first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers and as with all his writing is a virtuoso example of Shalev's skill as a storyteller. Published to outstanding reviews all over the world, its publication in Britain re-affirms his reputation as a major international writer.Set in a small rural village prior to the creation of the State of Israel, this funny and hugely imaginative book paints an extraordinary picture of a small community of Ukrainian immigrants as they succeed in pioneering a new life in a new land over three generations. The Blue Mountain transcends its time and place by touching on issues of universal relevance whilst never failing to entertain and engage the reader. As with Four Meals, the writing is lyrical and of exceptional quality and illustrates why Shalev has been steadily winning over an ever-increasing number of fans worldwide.

The Blue Mountain

Four Meals

Esav (Sifriyah la-am)

Het leven van een Israëlische toeristengids, gespecialiseerd in het rondleiden van vogelaars, verweven met de onthutsende verwikkelingen in zijn familie.

Een duif en een jongen / druk 1

Фонтанелла

A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, and does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives. Informed by Shalev’s literary sensibility, his sometime riotous humor, and his deep curiosity about the land, My Wild Garden abounds with appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on Earth. Our borrowed time on any particular patch of it is enhanced, the author reminds us, by our honest, respectful dealings with all manner of beings who inhabit it with us.

Een waterbouwkundig inspecteur in Israël vertelt over zijn werk in de Negev-woestijn en over zijn opgroeien tussen vijf vrouwen

Roman

Im Haus der Grossen Frau

Judiths Liebe

Barbara Harshav

Zayde Rabinovitch relates the story of his mother, Judith, the three men who loved her, and the mystery surrounding his paternity

The Loves of Judith

Mortimer finds that everything his father does embarrasses him until the day he enters a baking contest in Mortimer's class.

My Father Always Embarrasses Me

El chico de las palomas

The Blue Mountain is the first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers and as with all his writing is a virtuoso example of Shalev's skill as a storyteller. Published to outstanding reviews all over the world, its publication in Britain re-affirms his reputation as a major international writer. Set in a small rural village prior to the creation of the State of Israel, this funny and hugely imaginative book paints an extraordinary picture of a small community of Ukrainian immigrants as they succeed in pioneering a new life in a new land over three generations. The Blue Mountain transcends its time and place by touching on issues of universal relevance whilst never failing to entertain and engage the reader. As with Four Meals, the writing is lyrical and of exceptional quality and illustrates why Shalev has been steadily winning over an ever-increasing number of fans worldwide.

Meir Shalev scrive del suo giardino nella valle di Jezreel, dove ha nutrito alberi e piante selvatici, sparso semi e bulbi di ciclamino, anemone, narciso, croco, papavero e molti altri fiori di campo, e dove conversa con i veri proprietari del luogo: uccelli, ricci, farfalle, cinghiali, serpenti e altri amici. Nessuno di loro sa di vivere in Terra Santa, luogo sacro alle tre religioni che si sono combattute per centinaia di anni. Con amore e umorismo Shalev racconta dei colori, delle fragranze e dei suoni che danno vita al suo giardino, delle stagioni mutevoli e dei tempi che cambiano, dei suoi pensieri su germinazione, essiccazione, piantagione, fioritura e diserbo. Questo libro non è però un manuale di botanica o di giardinaggio.È una raccolta di impressioni su un modesto giardino selvatico e su un giardiniere che se ne occupa perché da uomo maturo si è trovato un nuovo passatempo, e forse anche un nuovo amore.

Il mio giardino selvatico

Im Anfang war das Wort. Aber wer gab wem den ersten Kuss? Worüber wurde zum ersten Mal gelacht, zum ersten Mal geweint? Wer empfand den ersten Hass? Wovon handelte der erste Traum? Meir Shalev spürt in der Bibel den ›ersten Malen‹ nach – mit überraschenden Ergebnissen."

Aller Anfang

A charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth.

A Family Memoir

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner

In het boek 'De grote vrouw' van meesterverteller Meir Shalev draait het om Refael Maier. Hij is grootgebracht door 'de grote vrouw', een combinatie van zijn teruggetrokken moeder, krengerige zus, gierige grootmoeder en twee tantes. Met zijn tweeënvijftig jaar is hij inmiddels de oudste nog levende man in zijn familie ooit. Zijn vader, grootvader en twee ooms zijn allen jong gestorven. Daardoor zit hij gevangen tussen deze vrouwen, die hem steeds weer hun verhalen en geschiedenissen vertellen. Meir Shalev wordt gerekend tot de grootste schrijvers uit de moderne Israëlische literatuur. Zijn boeken zijn in meer dan twintig landen vertaald. Eerder verschenen van hem onder meer 'Het zat zo', 'Een duif en een jongen' en in september 2014 verschijnt 'Een geweer, een koe, een boom en een vrouw'.

De grote vrouw

Baruch blickt zurück auf seine Kindheit in einer kleinen Siedlung in der Jesreel-Ebene, im heutigen Israel. Humorvoll werden die einzelnen Dorfbewohner charakterisiert: der konspirative Rilow, der am liebsten noch die Geburt seiner Tochter geheimhalten will; Fejge, um die sich die wildesten Gerüchte ranken; Baruch selbst, der Lauscher an der Wand, der von seinem Großvater allein erzogen wird...

Ein Russischer Roman

One of Israel's most celebrated novelists--the acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boy--gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. "In the year 1930 three farmers committed suicide here . . . but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered." This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and independent thinker in this small farming community who is writing seventy years later about that murder, about two charismatic men she loves and is trying to forgive--her grandfather and her husband--and about her son, whom she mourns and misses. In a story rich with the grit, humor, and near-magical evocation of Israeli rural life for which Meir Shalev is beloved by readers, Ruta weaves a tale of friendship between men, and of love and betrayal, which carries us from British Palestine to present-day Israel, where forgiveness, atonement, and understanding can finally happen.

Meir Shalev

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