Shalom India Housing Society

Shalom India Housing Society

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAG071
Author: Esther David
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Language: English
Edition: 2007
ISBN: 9788188965090
Pages: 240
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 270 gm

Book Description

About the Book

Set in a fictional society in Ahmadabad formed after the communal riots of 2002, Shalom India housing society weaves together the lives of its residents through a series of stories that capture the dilemmas of the last bene Israel Jews in India. How are their relations with other communities changing? Ought they to leave? Where can they go? Do they belong in India, or in Israel? Will they feel at home in Israel?

Drawing readers into the world of a microscopic community, the novel traces misunderstandings between parents and children, lovers and neighbours, in stories that are by turns hilarious, bitter-sweet and heartwarming. The spirit of the affectionate, sometimes eccentric, Prophet Elijah to whom the characters turn in their trouble suffuses the novel. Esther David probes the shifting layers of religious and national identity-from the way people dream of homelands imagined or left behind- in prose that is understand but always engaging.

About the Author

Esther David is the author of the walled city, book of Esther, by the Sabarmati, book of Rachel and my father’s zoo. She has edited an anthology of earthquake stories and co-authored a book, India’s Jewish heritage: ritual, art and life cycle. She is published in French and her work is included in the library of modern Jewish literature, Syracuse university press, New York. She belongs to a bene Israel Jewish family of Ahmadabad and grew up in a zoo created by her father.

Contents

Acknowledgements

ix

Prelude

1

1.

The prophet arrives

5

2.

Leon

27

3.

Yael

34

4.

Salome

49

5.

Sippora

54

6.

Ruby

61

7.

Rachel

82

8.

Juliet

94

9.

Ben Hur

105

10.

Diana

125

11.

Ezra

138

12.

Ezel

143

13.

Tamar

162

14.

Noah

171

15.

Shoshanah

180

16.

Miriam

187

17.

Samuel

208

18.

Juliet

222

19.

Hadasah

225

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