Relates the tales of a turn-of-the-century Persian village through the experiences of two teenaged Jewish girls

Persian Brides

Literature & Fiction

Rabinyan, Dorit

Lotan, Yael

Contemporary

George Braziller, Inc.

Lotan’s meticulously researched novel wears its mantle of scholarship lightly as it breathes life into a fascinating period of the bible — the reigns of David and Solomon in Jerusalem, some three thousand years ago. Of the scant female biblical characters, few are as intriguing as Avishag the Shunammite: a young girl brought from obscurity to the court of the aged King David, to warm the king's bed and stir his aged blood. Though ‘exceedingly fair’, she does not become the King’s concubine. Reticent and loyal to David, she becomes an unwitting magnet, drawing the attention of the kingdom’s most powerful men. As the sons of David—Adonijah the Judean and Solomon the Wise stake their claims, it is Avishag who will play the decisive role in the bloody rivalry for the succession.

Avishag

Literary

Amazon Crossing

The old king is dying and his sons are contending for the succession. At the very center of this power struggle is a young and beautiful girl. But this is no fairy tale. Few female Biblical characters are as intriguing as Avishag: a young girl brought from a remote village to the court of the aged King David, to warm the king's bed and stir his aged blood. Reticent and loyal to David, she becomes an unwitting magnet, drawing the attention of the Kingdom's most powerful men. As the sons of David - Adonijah the Judean warrior and Solomon, the King's youngest and cleverest son - stake their claims, it is Avishag who will play the decisive role in their bloody rivalry for the throne.

Toby Pr

This is a novel about the intimate triangle of man, woman and child, which explores sexual identity and the relationship between life and literature. A young woman meets an elderly Englishman, George Brown, while she is visiting London. After his death, she receives his written confession. Her husband, a novelist, decides to publish it. The confession opens with the so-called sin of writing. Brown, who never married or had a family of his own, persistently tries to find out the secret of his mother's disappearance. His relationship with his father and longing for his absent mother creates a conundrum, which is only revealed to Brown in the closing pages.

The Crime of Writing

Lapid, Haim

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Persian Brides

Avishag

Avishag

The Crime of Writing