BOOKS 2023 #With a worker

On the face of it, no life is more beautiful than Matilda's. For decades the members of her family have been engaged in polishing precious gems, and their name is known throughout Italy; Her family is happy, her granddaughter is getting married, and her home on the shores of the picturesque village of Viareggio is sunny and welcoming, but when the ladies of the house meet for the wedding approaching, an innocent question about an old piece of jewelry awakens old secrets from their hearth.

The new boy who arrived in the class had a pair of dead eyes staring forward. He also had white hair and a pale bloodless face. It was clear he was a zombie. Dagan immediately understands the danger facing him and Ari, his twin, but Ari is sure that it's all just prejudices. Who is right...?

A story of surrender and heroism. This is the chilling story of the soldiers of the pier outpost during the Yom Kippur War, written by the doctor Dr. Nahum Varbin, who cared for the wounded throughout the days of the desperate fighting. When the IDF's rescue attempts failed, Varbin was pushed to a difficult and bold decision: to wave a white flag and prefer captivity to continued fighting without The expectancy, which ends in certain death.

A sense of urgency evoked by these days gave rise to this file, which includes twenty-three of our authors whose books dealt directly or indirectly with the complexity of the Israeli situation. "If Israel is eliminated, what will future generations remember of it?"

While the world licks the wounds of World War II and the Iron Curtain descends on Europe, the life of eleven-year-old Roland Baines changes from one end to the other. He is thousands of miles away from his mother's protective love, left to his own devices in a boarding school in England, and his sensitivity and vulnerability attract the piano teacher Miss Cornell to him.

The heroines of Lyudmila Ulitskaya's collection of stories struggle to establish their lives in the indeterminate book zone between the government's propaganda slogans and the reality of life in Russia - a life in which even love exists under the scrutiny of oppression, and without any material comfort.

Two families live next door to each other in a shared building in Holon, and Niva is also raising the neighbor's son, who was orphaned by his mother, with her children. It's just that her husband, Rega, repeatedly reminds him that he is not a member of the family, and when his obscure business succeeds for a while, he moves his family to Kfar Neter, and the relationship with the neighbor's son is severed.

What would have happened if Columbus had not discovered America, and the Incas had invaded Europe, introduced the sun religion and conquered the continent under the guidance of Machiavelli's "prince"?

A Tel Aviv pub not one of the main ones, late evening. A few couples are sitting there, also some singles. A total of seven tables are occupied. On the outside, everything looks like every Sunday, only a few come, but this particular shift will not end peacefully - at least one body, which will be discovered late, will be very difficult to identify. whose?

The stories present a surprising variety of subjects and places of occurrence, of characters, of voices and of moods. They stand in a fascinating dialogue with the novels and give readers a unique key to the inexhaustible world of the Chilean writer.

On the day the Six Day War breaks out, Zamira, a police officer, is called to her childhood friend by a gunshot; Zo informs her that her husband, the station's intelligence coordinator, has disappeared. A few hours later his body is discovered. Inspector Moshe Biton is appointed head of the Chacham and opens an investigation, but in time and in secret, Zimira begins her own investigation

Ellen is a dedicated social worker whose good name goes before her. Dozens of families owe her a debt of gratitude, and the district prosecutors consult with her every week. In her wildest dreams she never imagined that all of this would be taken from her in a few moments...