Rina Frank-Mitrani Book order (chronological)

Een jood-Roemeense vrouw van middelbare leeftijd, wonend in Israël, moet een levensbedreigende operatie ondergaan; na de ingreep wordt zij verliefd op de (getrouwde) chirurg en verlaat haar vriend.

Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and her parents inhabit a cramped apartment with a narrow balcony that becomes an intimate, shared stage on which the joys and dramas of the building's daily life are played out. It also a window through which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country.