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A pigeon and a boy / Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg

By:

Shalev, Meir

Contributor(s):

Fallenberg, Evan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Schocken Books , 2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 311 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780805242515

Uniform titles:

Yonah ve-naar . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Love stories

DDC classification:

FIC SHA

LOC classification:

PJ5054.S384 Y6613 2007

Summary: During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		054952

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During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend.

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