<p><div>Jerusalem in the early 1990s, just before the Israeli&nbsp;prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo&nbsp;Peace Accords and was assassinated by a rightwing&nbsp;ideologue shortly thereafter. Naomi, a former&nbsp;architect from secular Tel Aviv, has just married&nbsp;Jochanan, a religious doctor who emigrated from&nbsp;Sweden. <i>Days of Peace</i> follows Naomi through&nbsp;Jerusalem as she meets a rich cast of characters,&nbsp;from an Arab beggarwoman in a park on a Sabbath&nbsp;afternoon to a professor of biblical archaeology on&nbsp;a life-long quest to produce a hand-lettered edition&nbsp;of the Bible. Kaleidoscopic scenes of the city pass&nbsp;before our eyes: a ritual bath, a wedding hall, carpentry&nbsp;workshops, bookstores, Hadassah Hospital,&nbsp;a former leper colony and more. As Naomi's marriage&nbsp;deteriorates, she travels to Poland, where the&nbsp;sorrow over those lost in the Holocaust intertwines&nbsp;with her nostalgia for the early romance of her&nbsp;now-faded marriage. But while the drama unfolds&nbsp;in the divorce court back in Jerusalem, Naomi is&nbsp;on her ultimate search--to find her place in this&nbsp;historical city.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Written in deceptively simple, almost conversational&nbsp;prose, Rachel Shihor's latest novel is a&nbsp;poignant, layered portrait of a city and a young&nbsp;woman's quest to find herself.</div></p>

Days of Peace

Shihor, Rachel

Literature & Fiction

Seagull Books

Yankinton

Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor’s novella Yankinton have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city.

Days Bygone (Volume 7) (Cahiers)

Literary

Sylph Editions

“Rachel Shihor is the opposite of a misty-eyed writer,” writes Mona Reiserer in the Quarterly Conversation. “Her writing penetrates to the truth of the aches and anxieties all people share, though they must generally suffer them alone.” “There is no question that she is a great writer,” Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, confirms, “Only a master could make such originality feel inevitable. The only question is why so few people have had the chance to read her.” In Stalin is Dead, Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of the world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world—reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, poignant old ladies, dying dictators, and dead poets, to name just a few—have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition. Available at last in Ornan Rotem’s translation, these edifying stories, with all their sadness and humor, are a writer’s tour de force and a reader’s delight.

Stalin is Dead: Stories and Aphorisms on Animals, Poets and Other Earthly Creatures

In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor’s stories—published here for the first time in the original Hebrew—appear alongside Ornan Rotem’s English translation. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of a world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world—reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, and poignant old ladies, not to mention dying dictators and dead poets—have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition.   In her introduction, Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, confirms, “Only a master could make such originality feel inevitable. The only question is why so few people have had the chance to read her.”   These edifying stories, with all their sadness and humor, are a writer’s tour de force and a reader’s delight.  

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Days of Peace

Yankinton

Days Bygone (Volume 7) (Cahiers)

Stalin is Dead: Stories and Aphorisms on Animals, Poets and Other Earthly Creatures

Stalin is Dead: Stories and Aphorisms on Animals, Poets and Other Earthly Creatures