sorrow, hope and radishes
Ten years after the founding of Israel Gerschonas father comes with a "completely new" grandfather and a green used cars, a Plymouth, from a six-month journey back to America the young Middle Eastern state. Gerschona had no idea until now that she has a grandfather and the Plymouth is the first car in the street, lives in what her family. The only child Gerschona has no friends, feels very lonely and ashamed, not least for his name. As a neighbor operating Gerschona children, against a round of car-sharing participate in his father's car parked at the facility of a common garden beds, they would like to take this opportunity necessarily.
Unfortunately the car will jump right on the specified day, not so that is Gerschona further excluded from the activities of their peers. The already anxious radish seeds they sow so in a flower pot, waiting impatiently for the first seed leaves. While the neighborhood children neglect soon the care for the care of the garden beds, Gerschona looks carefully after the pot on the windowsill. A retired ice cream stalk serves as a mini-shovel and poured, in small doses with the pipette of grandmas eye drops.
When, despite such good care nothing visible seems to stir the pot and there in the bed a few floors below begins to sprout, Gerschona doubts the justice of the world. In the midst of these emotions is the entry of a boy into the house next door, who seems to find the girl sympathetically.
The paperback will be sold off by the way now. I discovered it on Jokers catalog, in which it can be ordered reduced price.
Nava Semel:
sorrow, hope and radishes
Penguin Books, 2005
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