A Tale of Love and Darkness
Recommended by Michael Goldfarb, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #4 in Israel, Ranked #7 in Hebrew — see more rankings.
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community... more
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother's suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community... more
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A Tale of Love and Darkness is ranked in the following categories:
- #18 in Jerusalem
- #31 in Jewish
- #49 in Middle East
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