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Every house needs a balcony : a novel / Rina Frank ; translated from the Hebrew by Ora Cummings. by Frank-Mitrani, Rina. HarperCollins, c2010. Call #: FICTION FRA Subjects Jewish women -- Fiction.   Poor families -- Fiction.   Jewish families -- Fiction.   Apartment dwellers -- Fiction.   Girls -- Fiction.   Haifa (Israel) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780061714238 Alternate title:  Kol bayit tsarikh mirpèset. Edition:  1st ed. Description:  327 p. ; 22 cm. Notes:  "Harper." Original Hebrew title: Kol bayit tsarikh mirpèset. Translated from the Hebrew. Summary:  "Braiding together past and present, Every House Needs a Balcony tells the story of a young Jewish girl--a child of Romanian immigrants--who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel. Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and their 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 is also a vantage point from which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country, born from the ashes of World War II. Later, after years of living abroad with her wealthy Spanish husband in Barcelona, Rina, longing for the simple life she has missed, returns to the Haifa of her boisterous youth, a move that soothes her soul but ultimately endangers her marriage. Beautifully told, rich with questions of identity, love, and survival, Every House Needs a Balcony is an unforgettable social and historical portrait of a neighborhood and a nation. Steeped in the colors and smells, laughter and tears, of Rina Frank's own childhood memories, it is a heartbreaking tale about the deepest meanings of home."--Inside jacket. Genre:  Hebrew fiction -- Translations into English. Bildungsromans. Jewish fiction. First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION FRA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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