On her own : a novel
Lapid, Lihie2024
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Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he's her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother's constant pleas - which end in exhausting screaming matches - she packs a suitcase and leaves home after one last fight. Ten days later, a terrified Nina, her dress torn, is hiding in the stairwell of a Tel Aviv apartment after witnessing a murder she cannot talk about. She is discovered by one of the building's tenants, a confused, lonely old widow who mistakes her for the granddaughter she hasn't seen for a long while, not since her son moved his family to America.
Main title:
On her own : a novel / Lihi Lapid ; translated by Sondra Silverston.
Author:
Lapid, Lihie, authorSilverston, Sondra, translator
Imprint:
London : HarperVia, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Hebrew.
ISBN:
9780063309760 (hbk)
Dewey class:
892.437
Language:
EnglishHebrew
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BRN:
1414316
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