• Meir Shalev’s “The Blue Mountain”

  • Apr 21 2021
  • Length: 8 mins
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Meir Shalev’s “The Blue Mountain”

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  • Set in a rural village prior to the creation of the state of Israel, The Blue Mountain describes a community of eastern European immigrants as they pioneer life in a new land. Narrated by Baruch, a grandson of one of the founding fathers of the village, the novel offers not only a fascinating account of the hardships experienced by the Jewish pioneers, but is also extremely funny and imaginative. It is arranged as a series of vignettes, narrated by Baruch, a mortician, who reflects on the many people he has buried in a remote village.

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    The Blue Mountain. By Meir shalev. Translated by Hillel Halkin. Cannongate Books, 2001.

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