WRITING FROM ISRAEL

Zygmunt Frankel

32 titles, ranging from single-page "mini-stories" to short novels.
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AT THE BANK
a ministory

BRINGING THINGS INTO THE HOUSE
Superstition

THE CANONIZATION OF SHLOMO SOLOMON
the real story and the legend of an Israeli soldier

THE CAT
A political prisoner uses magic to escape execution

THE DUCKS OF FAYID
The Yom-Kippur war and an African duck

THE ENEMY
An Egyptian soldier in the Six-Day war

THE FILTER
Sediments of life

HAPPY END
a ministory

HETAERA ESMERALDA
Venereal disease and a tropical butterfly

A HEDGEHOG IN THE HOUSE
Raising hedgehogs at home and competition at work

KHAMSEEN
A hot wind from the desert

THE KILLER
a ministory

THE LAST GUARD AT AUSCHWITZ
An idea

MAKING A FOOL OF ONESELF
Cracking jokes with strangers

THE MAN WHO LOVED CATS
A selective affection of a complicated man

MOTIVATION OF THE PEARL OYSTER
A short novel. An affair with a secretary and a terrorist attack.

THE OCTOPUS
A short prize-winning novel. The 1956 Kfar Kassem masacre of Arab villagers by Israeli soldiers

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
Beautiful women and jealous lovers

THE ROAD
a ministory

A ROOF IN JERUSALEM
A ministory. King David and Batsheva's husband.

SCORPION WEATHER
a ministory

SILENCE SHOP
a ministory

STONES
Antiquities and plain stones

THE SWEATER
Nothing is as simple as it looks

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES
Reoccurrence of an old story

THE TOSSED COIN
War before hindsight

TRAFFIC LIGHTS
a ministory

WATCHING VEILED WOMEN GO BY
Reporters in far places

MR. FINKELSTEIN'S ULCER
Ulcers in war and peace

MATCHES
What it's like to be a match

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