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By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem's debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel's top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film.
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Overwhelming, contemporary, intimate and prestige.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ron Leshem
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440337379
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