Homesick (Toska po Domu)

Lovers Amir and Noa decide to move in together. He studies at Tel Aviv University, she at art school in Jerusalem, so they settle on a small apartment in a settlement located right in the middle between the two cities... This book is about two young people starting a life together, finding their first home together. It is about how the lives of other people penetrate this home, their lives—behind a thin wall, a husband and wife clash over the religious upbringing of their children; neighbors across the street grieve the loss of their eldest son, who died in Lebanon, having stopped paying attention to their younger son, who so desperately needs him; from a construction site just down the street, an elderly Palestinian worker watches their house closely, remembering well how his family was once evicted from it... 'Homesick' is a beautiful, intelligent, touching story about a country, about love, about family, and about the importance of home in a person's life.