The Teacher by Ben-Naftali, Michal

The Teacher (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781948830072)

Vendor: Michal Ben-Naftali
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Format: Paperback
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The Teacher by Ben-Naftali, Michal

The Teacher

$14.95
The Teacher by Ben-Naftali, Michal

The Teacher

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the narrator of the novel, one of her students, decides to solve the riddle of Elsa Weiss. Expertly dovetailing explosive historical material with flights of imagination, the novel explores the impact of survivor's guilt and traces the footprints of a Holocaust survivor who did her utmost to leave no trace.

Ben-Naftali's The Teacher takes us through a keenly crafted, fictional biography for Elsa--from childhood through adolescence, from the Holocaust to her personal aftermath--and brings us face to face with one woman's struggle in light of one of history's great atrocities.



Author: Michal Ben-Naftali
ISBN-10: 1948830078
ISBN-13: 9781948830072
Publisher: Open Letter
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Foreword 12/26/2019
By Michal Ben-Naftali
By Michal Ben-Naftali
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Michal Ben-Naftali was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. A writer, translator, and editor, she has published collections of essays, a novella, a memoir, and a novel, as well as many articles on literature, philosophy, and art, in Israel and abroad. Her translations from French to Hebrew include works by Jacques Derrida, André Breton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Maurice Blanchot, Julia Kristeva, Esther Orner, and Annie Ernaux. She has received the Prime Minister's Prize (2007) and the Haaretz prize for Best Literary Essay of the Year (2008). Her novel, The Teacher, won the 2016 Sapir Prize.

Daniella Zamir lives in Tel-Aviv, where she works as a literary translator. She obtained her bachelor's degree in literature from Tel Aviv University, and her master's degree in creative writing from City University in London.

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