A Man and a Woman and a Man: A Novel

A powerful novel about intertwined mourning and passiona critically-acclaimed bestseller from Israel. This is the story of Hamutal, a married woman who has an affair with a stranger she meets in the nursing home where her mother and his father are dying. With two daughters, a husband, a job as editor of a psychology journal, and a home to run, Hamutal has always juggled her duties. But taking care of her mother, a Holocaust survivor now suffering from Alzheimer's disease, adds a nearly insupportable degree of responsibility and a burden of grief. Daily visits bring back her own loveless childhood and her mother's suppressed war experiences. Across the hall, a man in a green jacket tenderly cares for his dying father. Although they have hardly spoken, Hamutal becomes obsessed with him. Only he seems able to transport her from the tragedy of her everyday life. As his father approaches death and as Hamutal's husband and daughters become increasingly distant, an intense love affair begins. With rare insight and sensitivity, Liebrecht captures the lovers' passion, tinged with the desperation of watching their parents' decline. Deeply conscious of how history, psychology, desire, and will make up the whole person, she navigates among the various relationships as she follows the affair to its sudden end. A Man and a Woman and a Man confirms Liebrecht's place as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Hebrew literature. Its translation into German, Italian, and now into superbly rendered English extends Liebrecht's reputation and readership worldwide.

Literature & Fiction

LIEBRECHT, SAVYON

Literary

Persea

A literary mystery, set in New York City and bohemian Tel Aviv, by one of Israel’s most admired popular authors. After his successful first novel, Meir suffers writer’s block. Then his father, poet and charmer of women, who supposedly died decades earlier, contacts him and they arrange to meet. Fragmented, troubling memories of a forgotten childhood time spent alone with his father rise to Meir’s consciousness. Swirling floodwater, a man hiding from the Gestapo, a woman flirting, a bloodstained sheet. What happened during that time, and why did his father disappear? While solving these riddles of the past, Meir inhabits the borderland between memory and artistic creation. There he finds emotions so deeply tangled in his being that they can only be expressed through art. He begins to write again―a story of a loving son who witnessed a seduction and perhaps also a murder. 0

The Women My Father Knew: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)

Savyon Liebrecht's stories reveal the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private worlds of home and family. She depicts the personal tragedies -- and the small acts of courage and reconciliation -- that grow from the deep-rooted conflict between Arabs and Jews, women and men, and older and younger generations in present-day Israel.

Apples from the Desert: Selected Short Stories (Fiction in Translation S.)

Contemporary

Loki Books Ltd

Savyon Liebrecht's intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Her short fiction explores the everyday tragedies that emanate from strained relationships between Arabs and Jews, women and men, older and younger generations in present-day Israel. According to the Washington Post Book World, her "engrossing and skillful tales take you through the lives of real people, to the heart of their emotional and moral being." Liebrecht reveals the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private world of the home with a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer. "These finely wrought stories of private lives shed light on a terrifying political conflict", notes the New York Times Book Review. "[Liebrecht] takes you places you've never been before." The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Woman's Series

Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Savyon Liebrecht’s intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht’s most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time. With a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer, Liebrecht’s stories reveal the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private worlds of home and family. She depicts the personal tragediesand the small acts of courage and reconciliationthat grow from the deep-rooted conflict between Arabs and Jews, women and men, and older and younger generations in present-day Israel. These stories create a finely nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel; at the same time, they reach toward truths that know no national boundaries. As Lily Rattok writes in her introduction, Liebrecht’s skill as a writer, combined with her perceptiveness, her compassion, and her deep humanity, create a body of work that is a testament to the healing power of storytelling.”

From one of the most important voices in contemporary Hebrew literature, the gripping story of a reunion between two family members that brings back a long-forgotten past and reveals secrets that will change their lives forever. Micha, an Israeli expat in Los Angeles working as a ghostwriter, receives an unexpected invitation. Adella, married to his beloved uncle, has bought him a flight ticket to Israel and booked a boutique hotel, so that he can return home and meet with her. Years before, Micha had been the bridesman at Adella's wedding. He remembers her as a rebellious young woman from a poor family, an outsider that was mocked by his family. Micha is stunned by the Adella of today-poised, confident, with nothing of the uneasy woman he remembers from the past. When finally Adella reveals the true story of her life, powerful memories resurface in Micha, although nothing can prepare him for the surprise she has in store for him... The Bridesman presents a beguiling cast of characters, whose stories are interwoven into a gripping and moving tale about family, place, and the unceasing power of the past to reshape our lives and identity.

The Bridesman

Genre Fiction

Europa Editions

Tapuhim min ha-Midbar

Keter

Nashim mi-tokh ḳaṭalog: Sheloshah sipurim (Hebrew Edition)

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A Man and a Woman and a Man: A Novel

The Women My Father Knew: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)

Apples from the Desert: Selected Short Stories (Fiction in Translation S.)

Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)

Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)

The Bridesman

The Bridesman

Tapuhim min ha-Midbar

Nashim mi-tokh ḳaṭalog: Sheloshah sipurim (Hebrew Edition)