Light Fell
Published on 1. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-56947-536-2 (ISBN)
Description
Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction.
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in his Tel Aviv penthouse. This will be the first time he and his sons will have all been together in nearly two decades.
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in his Tel Aviv penthouse. This will be the first time he and his sons will have all been together in nearly two decades.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56947-536-2 (9781569475362)
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Evan Fallenberg is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and has lived in Israel since 1985, where he is a writer, teacher, and translator. His recent translations include novels by Batya Gur, Meir Shalev, and Ron Leshem. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Vermont College MFA program in creative writing. Light Fell is his first novel.