The Family Orchard (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nomi Eve
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1837-2000
- Setting: Mostly Israel
- Principal Characters: Esther Schine, Yochanan Schine, Ruchama, Eliezer, Golda, Avra, Shimon, Miriam, Zohar, Moti
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Jews or Jewish life, Adultery, Stepfamily, Israel or Israelis
- Locales: Israel
The first, ambitious novel by Nomi Eve reads smoothly and pleasurably. It is not easy to retell the story, because The Family Orchard is not written like a novel, but is more like a memoir, an autobiography, and a family history. The writer employs a complex, multilevel writing technique to achieve the necessary atmosphere: old pictures and lithographs, and also family trees starting in 1837 and gradually growing new “branches,” developing into a rich, magnificent family orchard of the present time. Eve employs her father’s documents relating to the events and personages in...
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