Nomi Eve Book order (chronological)

A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of family secrets and tragedies, of sex and marriage. Yochanan and his wife Esther who lived happily despite Esther's long-time affair with the local baker; Avra who has a penchant for stealing (and returning) who marries Shimon, an immigrant from Russia; Miriam, a child of Eastern Europe who sews her family's futures into her cloth. Shyly sexy and funny, always rooted in the domestic and the familiar, this is an enchanting, complex novel which draws on the voices of many generations from far and wide, reaching across the Diaspora - Israel, Europe and America.

"Wat de stilte vertelt" is een familiesaga over de diaspora van zes generaties in Israël, Palestina, Oost-Europa en Amerika, waarin grote thema's als verraad, de kracht van de liefde, angst en hoop voorkomen. Het begint in 1837 met het huwelijk tussen Esther en Yochanan en van daaruit voert de Israelische schrijfster ons in haar debuut mee langs de joodse geschiedenis van haar familie.