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| Title: | Dearest Anne
: A Tale of Impossible Love |
| Series: | (Jewish Women Writers) |
| Author: | Judith Katzir. Translated by Dalya Bilu |
| ISBN: | 1558615792 : 9781558615793 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 332 |
| Weight: | .546 Kg. |
| Published: | Feminist Press - May 2008 |
| List Price: | 36.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Jewish studies: Modern fiction |
An Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank chronicle romantic trysts with her female teacher. Written by best-selling Israeli author Judith Katzir, this is a stirring record of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s and the story of a hidden, erotic love affair between a teenaged girl and her married teacher, Michaela. After reading Anne Frank's diary, young Rivi starts a series of writing notebooks that document the angst of growing up in rural Israel. The entries reveal how her crush on her literature teacher develops into a poignant and turbulent love affair that lasts for years before its scandalous end. Decades later, the grown Rivi, now a mother, wife, and established author, comes to terms with the forbidden love that shaped her future.
"More than anything else, the book is a temple of love to the imaginary, and to literature as an option for deep and vigorous living... The story succeeds in arousing interest and emotion... The greatness of the novel is understood only in retrospect, after reading it and tying all the threads, events and vantage points together into one complete picture." -- Ya'ara Muki, Time Out. "Judith Katzir is by far the most talented of the... young Israeli women writers. It is really impressive, how Katzir lets her protagonist trace these two decisive years in her life and to see the emotional depth and the poetic sharpness of her descriptions. Dearest Anne... a great literary achievement." -- Jüdische Zeitung, 2.06. "There is something addictive about Judith Katzir's writing: the ability to pour beauty and meaning into a fleeting moment, to catch it in the tangle of time and shape and polish it all in metaphoric language that is amazingly sensuous and precise." -- Miri Paz, Globes.
