City of Many Days Author:Shulamith Hareven The Story of a Woman: Sara Amarillo,young and hauntingly beautiful, emerging from her close-knit Jewish family to fiercely assert her emotional and sexual independence amid the intrigues of a time of danger and decision. — The Story of a City: Jerusalem, ruled by the British, centested by the Jews and Arabs, a beehive of humanity where the old an... more »d the new, the spendid and squalid, the noble and base, mingled in explosive alchemy as individual lives were swept up in the tidal wave of history.
"A volatile and aromtic book bursting with the sensous images, pungent smells, street noises and tensions of Jerusalem...earthly6, lyrical, moving, funny." New York Times Book Review
"A novel that won Israel's highest literary award...the human web of Jerusalem...the confusions, contradictions and passions." Publishers Weekly« less