Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

Set in a rural village prior to the creation of the state of Israel, The Blue Mountain describes a community of eastern European immigrants as they pioneer life in a new land. Narrated by Baruch, a grandson of one of the founding fathers of the village, the novel offers not only a fascinating account of the hardships experienced by the Jewish pioneers, but is also extremely funny and imaginative. It is arranged as a series of vignettes, narrated by Baruch, a mortician, who reflects on the many people he has buried in a remote village.

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The Blue Mountain. By Meir shalev. Translated by Hillel Halkin. Cannongate Books, 2001.

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Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"

Meir Shalev's "The Blue Mountain"

David Grossman's "The Desire to Be Gisella"

Dory Manor's "The Language Beneath the Skin"

Jews and Words

The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun

Ayelet Tsabari's "Savta"

A. B. Yehoshua's "The Lover"

Meir Shalev's "Four Meals"

Batya Gur's "Murder on a Kibbutz"

Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land"

Yaniv Iczkovits's "The Slaughterman's Daughter"