Uncle Peretz Takes Off
With the Publication of his Past Continous in 1983, Yaakov Shabtai assumed a place of eminence in the canon of modern Jewish literature. Alan Lelchuk, in the New York Times, acclaimed its portrait of contemporary Israeli society as "the most prodigious (and probably most realistic) in Hebrew fiction." In Uncle Peretz Takes Off, the first collection of Shabtai's s...more
Hardcover, 239 pages
Published
September 25th 2007
by Overlook Press
(first published 1972)
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A good translation of Shabtai's stories. Recommended to those who like their Eretz Yisrael with a hint of melancholy.
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