Days Bygone
Distributed for Sylph Editions
44 pages
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5 9/10 x 9 1/2
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© 2008
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.
Nicole Krauss | Author of The History of Love
“Days Bygone is a window onto the extraordinary mind of Rachel Shihor. There is no question that she is a great writer—only a master could make such originality feel inevitable. The only question is why so few people have had the chance to read her.”
Contents
Preface
Ornan Rotem
Ornan Rotem
Days Bygone—four excerpts from Yankinton
1. My aunt, my father’s sister, chose a monkey
2. From time to time, my parents would go to the cinema
3. In those long early summer days
4. In those bygone days I did not know
Remarks and Notes
Remarks on the translation
A note on the images
Colophon
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