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And This Is the Light

(1946)
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And This Is the Light is the first and only English edition of Israeli author Lea Goldberg's only novel, Vehu Ha'Or--one of the first novels published in Hebrew by a woman (1946).

It is set in the summer of 1931, when twenty-year-old Nora Krieger returns to her small-town home in Lithuania from university in Berlin ready to present her new, mature self. Instead, her time at home becomes a period of unrequited love, difficult memories and introspection, when she must accept the limits imposed on her by a class-conscious, increasingly anti-Semitic society. And This Is the Light is a lyrical coming-of-age story by one of Israel's most important writers, beautifully translated to retain the clarity and elegance of the original.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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