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Zu blaue Augen : Roman / Mira Magen ; aus dem Hebräischen von Anne Birkenhauer.

Title
Zu blaue Augen : Roman / Mira Magen ; aus dem Hebräischen von Anne Birkenhauer.
Author
Magen, Mira
Publication
München : DTV, 2017.

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Additional Authors
Birkenhauer, Anne
Description
379 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
Hannah Yonah, an eccentric widow of 77 with flashing blue eyes, lives in an old two-storey house in Jerusalem that a wealthy real-estate shark is plotting to buy from her. Hannah's three daughters, all unmarried career women, live in separate apartments in the same building. Yardena, a single mother, is in the hotel business; Simona is a doctor and Orna is in high-tech. There is also Johanna, Hannah's caregiver, a migrant worker from Romania. She is afraid that Hannah's secret double life will be discovered, for in the daytime she pretends to be a cripple in a wheelchair, but at night she dons high heels, goes out to bars with men and comes home drunk. Her desire for life and love, and her attempt to outwit the tyranny of time is shared by her daughters, and each one copes differently. Into this world comes a young man called Rafi. He rents an apartment on the ground floor, pretending to be a poet, and succeeds in charming Hannah. But the truth is that he is a conman, part of the plot to get Hannah to sell her house for which he has been promised a large sum of money. But as in Magen's previous novels, good fortune shines upon the characters, even the flawed ones. Rafi needs money to support his sister and her disabled child. Hanna finds true love and a real friend in Bruno, a gentle old man without family who comes to live with her, and Orna, who missed out on happiness when she was married, decides to have a child. -- Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
Uniform Title
ʻEnayim ḳeḥulot mi-dai. German.
Alternative Title
ʻEnayim ḳeḥulot mi-dai.
Subject
Hebrew literature, Modern > Translations into German
Genre/Form
Translations
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9783423261296 (hd.bd.)
  • 3423261293 (hd.bd.)
LCCN
9783423261296
OCLC
  • 980368013
  • SCSB-11283522
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library