Heatwave and crazy birds / Gabriela Avigur-Rotem ; translated by Dalya Bilu.

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When her archeologist father died, Loya Kaplan left Israel seemingly for good, severing all ties to her past. Twenty-five years later, she's a flight attendant without friends or family, happiest in the temporary and artificial world of airports. Sleepwalking through life, Loya is summoned back to I...

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Uniform Title:Ḥamsin ṿe-tsiporim meshugaʻot. English
Hebrew literature series.
International fiction: Hebrew.
Main Author: Avigur-Rotem, Gavriʼelah, 1946-
Other Authors: Bilu, Dalya
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Hebrew
Published: Champaign, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Hebrew literature series.
International fiction: Hebrew.
Subjects:
Flight attendants > Fiction.
Women > Israel > Fiction.
Children of Holocaust survivors > Fiction.
Jews > Identity > Fiction.
Israeli fiction > 21st century > Translations into English.
Israel > Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Translations into English.
Physical Description:401 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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Summary:
When her archeologist father died, Loya Kaplan left Israel seemingly for good, severing all ties to her past. Twenty-five years later, she's a flight attendant without friends or family, happiest in the temporary and artificial world of airports. Sleepwalking through life, Loya is summoned back to Israel following the death of Davidi, her father's nemesis.
Note:"Originally published in Hebrew as Chamsin Ve-Tziporim Meshugaot by Keshet, Tel Aviv, 2001."
Call Number:PJ5054.A9124 H3613 2011
ISBN:9781564786432 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1564786439 (pbk. : alk. paper)