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Four mothers
- Title
- Four mothers / Shifra Horn ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.
- Author
- Horn, Shifra.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Bilu, Dalya.
- Description
- 276 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Shifra Horn's beautifully imagined novel tells the story of four generations of women in one family against the background of one hundred years in Jerusalem."--BOOK JACKET.
- "The story begins with Amal, of the fifth generation, who is despondent over her husband's desertion after the birth of her son. Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are overjoyed, because the birth of a healthy boy means that their family's long curse has been broken - there is no daughter to inherit it. Come, listen, they say to Amal, listen to the story of the curse that foreshadowed every father's disappearance.
- Be comforted by your "four mothers": Mazal, the orphan, whose ill-fated marriage initiates the curse; her daughter Sara, whose beautiful golden hair becomes a symbol for her power to heal; Sara's daughter Pnina-Mazal, the unwanted child whose talent for knowing others' thoughts brings her both joy and sorrow; and her daughter Geula, Amal's mother, whose sharp intellect and idealism are her gift and her burden."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Arbaʻ imahot. English
- Alternative Title
- Arbaʻ imahot.
- ISBN
- 0312205473
- LCCN
- 99017448
- OCLC
- 40734891
- ocm40734891
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries