108:. Her works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. She is noted for her rich language, her lyrical yet matter-of-fact tone, and her distinct style, which is often characterized by a female second-person narrator and sometimes by the syntactic use of long and short sentences to suggest the rhythm of events. Critics have identified her as one of the first Israeli women novelists to break into what had been, until the 1980s, a male-dominated field.
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248:. "In our lives, we make intimate acquaintance with only a few people: close relatives, family, a few friends. Literature gives us the opportunity to meet many more souls, characters, people we can identify with." She added that, "In a world that generates a lot of noise, books are oases of peace and quiet."
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focuses on the story of one woman and, in the process, offers a distinctly female perspective on Jewish settlement in
Palestine. Married with five children, the real-life Tzilla met a man named Hanan who became her lover and soulmate. Hanan moved in with her family and lived with them for 25
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from 1919 to 1925, and that even after Tzilla's death in 1967, the family continued to maintain friendships with their former Arab neighbors and visited each other until the outbreak of the first
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in 1992. The book was a best-seller and one of the stories in the volume, "Schlaffstunde" ("Sleeping Hours"), appeared in
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