Maya Arad

The Hebrew Teacher (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Cohen, Jessica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights."

Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life's work. Miriam, whose son left Israel to make his fortune in Silicon Valley, pays an unwanted visit to meet her new grandson and discovers cracks in the family's perfect façade. Efrat, another Israeli in California, is determined to help her daughter navigate the challenges of middle school, and crosses forbidden lines when she follows her into the minefield of social media. In these three stirring novellascomedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivitycelebrated Israeli author Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Vessel Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781954404243
• Artikelnr.: 69888218

Autorenporträt

Maya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971, she received a PhD in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California where she is currently writer in residence at Stanford University's Taube Center for Jewish Studies.