Literary Modiin - April 2021 Author Event
Sun, Apr 25
|Zoom event
Join Literary Modiin for our April author event, featuring: - Rachel Neve-Midbar, author of Salaam of Birds: Poems - Edna Shemesh, author of Amstel - Haviva Ner-David, author of Hope Valley
Time & Location
Apr 25, 2021, 8:00 PM GMT+3
Zoom event
About the Event
About Edna Shemesh's Amstel:
A mother invites her son for a glass of Amstel beer, drunkenly reveals a part of her life that would have better remained hidden; a girl who’s almost a woman habitually bites the back of her hand until it bleeds to calm herself, and believes she’s found love; a man, alone, meets a young woman and boy on the beach and feels suddenly hopeful; a pregnant woman in Jerusalem and her Palestinian cleaning lady draw closer until the intifada tests their relationship; a woman exits her house momentarily into the night chill, the entrance door slams behind her and she has nowhere to go except to the small bonfire Palestinian workers from the occupied territories have kindled nearby – these are some of the diverse characters populating the stories in Amstel.
About Haviva Ner-David's Hope Valley:
Hope Valley is the story of two women, one Jewish-Israeli and…