Tel Aviv Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615422435)

"Tel Aviv is a place of contradiction, an urban dream of the Middle East where sleek European cafes sit beneath stone minarets; where Berlin-style hipsters sip coffee next to black-hatted rabbis; where charity, sex, conflict and controversy overflow the streets. In Tel Aviv Stories, Israel's "White City" is revealed. Through a tale of city madness in Spinoza Street, and the beggar's comedy, On Allenby; telling the secrets of an "urban witch" in White Hair Woman and showing the still-life of a young immigrant family in Mother, Father, Child; in the tragedy of twinhood in the novella Rivkah & Rebecca, and by tracing the footsteps of a lost life in Little Old Lady With the Flowers; and in a personal story of exile in Night of Grief, author Ashley Rindsberg gives outsiders entr e into a strange world of Russian street virtuosos, flower selling whores, polyglot bums and the "Backwards Rabbi," as well as the middle-class immigrants and children of wealth who people Israel's tangled urban heart."

Author: Ashley Rindsberg
ISBN-10: 0615422438
ISBN-13: 9780615422435
Publisher: Midnight Oil Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001