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Café Shira /
"Café Shira is a wry and often poignant work of fiction, portraying, in interlocking vignettes, a colorful cast of characters who frequent a Jerusalem literary café"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Café Shira is a wry and often poignant work of fiction, portraying, in interlocking vignettes, a colorful cast of characters who frequent a Jerusalem literary café"-- "New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira's devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation. These characters form the heart of this wry, often poignant novel narrated through a series of vignettes. They are joined by a colorful cast of characters who frequent the literary café--long-married couples, young lovers, an eccentric poet, and a traumatized veteran--all finding refuge and occasionally wisdom among their motley urban community. Closely based on Ehrlich's own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a café that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Café Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 200 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| ISBN: | 9780815655497 0815655495 |