A pigeon and a boy

Meir Shalev

Original title: Yonah ṿe-naʻar

first published 2006 Schocken Books, 2006 hardcover 311 pages

Sifriyah la-ʻam — book 554

During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a...

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Yonah ṿe-naʻar edition · 2006 · ʻAm ʻoved · 365 pages · 9789651318191
A pigeon and a boy hardcover · 2006 · Schocken Books · 311 pages · 9780805242515

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