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Haim Sabato

Adjusting Sights
When war breaks out in 1973, childhood friends Haim and Dov are called up together to serve in their tank battalion, but in the chaos of battle the friends are separated. A month later, Haim returns alone, on his first leave home...

Winner of the SAPIR PRIZE, ISRAEL

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-70-2 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
Adjusting Sights
Aleppo Tales
The Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria, the biblical Aram Soba is one of the world's most ancient, guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasting a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple. In this collection of three tales, the central novella, The Wheel Turns Full Circle, is a rare gem. Sabato interlaces the history of one family with the social and political turmoil spanning over a century...

Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-126-1 US$14.95
Publication date: January 2006   More Info...
Aleppo Tales
The Dawning of the Day
A humble man and a religious man, who worked as a presser in a laundry, Ezra Siman Tov was also a teller of stories, stories that enthralled and captivated his friends in their old Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His brother-in-law, Dr. Tawil, gave him a grudging respect, the Torah scholars listened surreptitiously and the Great Writer—S.Y. Agnon?—took his stories and gave them form. But along with his stories, Ezra also had a shame and a secret, which overshadowed his family. And his secret suffering never left him quite free...

Hardcover: ISBN: 1592641407 Pages: c.200 US$22.95 UK£12.99
Publication date: October 2006   More Info...
The Dawning of the Day
From the Four Winds
Haim Sabato offers another rich historical novel in From the Four Winds, an evocative rendering of his childhood experiences in an immigrant transit camp in 1950s Israel.
The young Haim is disturbed by the suppressed memories of the adults living in the immigrant community, until Farkash, a mysterious, unforgettable character takes Haim under his wing and reveals a sorrowful story that will affect Haim for the rest of his life.

Hardcover: ISBN: 978 159 264 240 3 Pages: c.160 US$24.95 UK£14.99
Publication date: Spring 2010   More Info...
From the Four Winds

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