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Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers.
When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh; Jacob, owner of hundreds of canaries and host to the four meals which lend the book its narrative structure; and Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair which his mother cut off in childhood.

During the four meals, which take place intermittently over several decades, Zayde slowly comes to understand why these three men consider him their son and why all three participate in raising him.

Four Meals

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Paperback / softback by Meir Shalev , Barbara Harshav

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Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers.When Judith arrives in a... Read more

    Publisher: Canongate Books
    Publication Date: 01/01/2001
    ISBN13: 9781841951140, 978-1841951140
    ISBN10: 1841951145

    Number of Pages: 336

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers.
    When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh; Jacob, owner of hundreds of canaries and host to the four meals which lend the book its narrative structure; and Moshe, a widowed farmer obsessed with his dead wife and his lost braid of hair which his mother cut off in childhood.

    During the four meals, which take place intermittently over several decades, Zayde slowly comes to understand why these three men consider him their son and why all three participate in raising him.

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