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OverviewA colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, and does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives. Informed by Shalev’s literary sensibility, his sometime riotous humor, and his deep curiosity about the land, My Wild Garden abounds with appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on Earth. Our borrowed time on any particular patch of it is enhanced, the author reminds us, by our honest, respectful dealings with all manner of beings who inhabit it with us. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Meir Shalev , Joanna ChenPublisher: Schocken Books Imprint: Schocken Books Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9780805243512ISBN 10: 0805243518 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 31 March 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Language: English Table of ContentsIn Lieu of a Preface . . . vii 1. A New Place . . . 3 2. Sea Squill . . . 10 3. Cyclamen . . . 18 4. Wild Trees . . . 23 5. Long Gone . . . 28 6. Work Tools . . . 33 7. Mole Rat . . . 41 8. The Mukhraka . . . 50 9. Ants . . . 54 10. Fruit Trees . . . 62 11. Home and Away . . . 68 12. Sabras . . . 72 13. Seasons . . . 79 14. Weeding . . . 87 15. Big Trees . . . 95 16. A Night in the Garden . . . 101 17. A Sorrowful Song . . . 106 18. Anemones . . . 109 19. Italy in the Garden . . . 114 20. Grass . . . 121 21. A Prayer for Rain . . . 126 22. Chopping Down . . . 133 23. Poppies . . . 138 24. Moments of Bliss . . . 144 25. Land . . . 151 26. Collecting and Other Dangers . . . 156 27. The Great Snapdragon . . . 164 28. Kramer the Cat . . . 168 29. Splendid Bindweed . . . 172 30. Cracked Olives . . . 176 31. Two Moons of Sowing . . . 182 32. Patience . . . 190 33. Barefoot . . . 194 34. Figs . . . 199 35. Wasp Nest . . . 205 36. Lupines . . . 209 37. Just Like Bavaria . . . 213 38. Procrastination and Ridicule . . . 218 39. The Stupid Woodpecker . . . 225 40. The Locked Garden . . . 230 41. Compost in the Composter . . . 236 42. Spiders and Snakes . . . 242 43. Further Dangers . . . 248 44. Tree of the Field . . . 257 45. Date and Carob . . . 264 46. “Oh Oh Virgin’s Bower” . . . 270 47. The Lemon Tree . . . 276 Acknowledgments . . . 281Reviews“Insightful, funny . . . Full of wisdom . . . You come away from the garden memoir with a clear sense of the author—his concerns, his surroundings, his loves—and a string of reverberating questions. Why, for example, as Shalev notes, are so few flowers mentioned in the Bible? What does that say about us as a people? And why do the poppies sway—even when the air is still? . . . I went to sleep every night with the smell of fresh figs and lemons and the sound of birdsong in my ears and the image of Shalev’s beloved black cat, Kramer, the hero of many of his Hebrew children’s stories, sleeping the day away beneath the buckthorn tree.” —Mitch Ginsburg, The Times of Israel “A freewheeling horticultural homage . . . Shalev’s own garden serves as a point of departure for literary musings that bloom into a kind of ‘autobiography with flowers.’ . . . Witty prose expertly translated from the Hebrew by Joanna Chen and charmingly illustrated by Refaella Shir.” —Benjamin Balint, Tel Aviv Review of Books “A nurturer of plants who is careful not to waste even a single seed and mourns the death of a tree, Shalev is a lyrical stylist and philosopher who writes with passion and humor. Drawings by Shir enhance the text.” —Sue O’Brien, Library Journal “Charming musings on the ‘moments of bliss’ found in the garden . . . in which gardening teaches perspective and the rewards of hard work . . . Rests on solid botanical knowledge but is never heavy-handed.” —Kirkus Reviews Insightful, funny . . . Full of wisdom . . . You come away from the garden memoir with a clear sense of the author--his concerns, his surroundings, his loves--and a string of reverberating questions. Why, for example, as Shalev notes, are so few flowers mentioned in the Bible? What does that say about us as a people? And why do the poppies sway--even when the air is still? . . . I went to sleep every night with the smell of fresh figs and lemons and the sound of birdsong in my ears and the image of Shalev's beloved black cat, Kramer, the hero of many of his Hebrew children's stories, sleeping the day away beneath the buckthorn tree. --Mitch Ginsburg, The Times of Israel A freewheeling horticultural homage . . . Shalev's own garden serves as a point of departure for literary musings that bloom into a kind of 'autobiography with flowers.' . . . Witty prose expertly translated from the Hebrew by Joanna Chen and charmingly illustrated by Refaella Shir. --Benjamin Balint, Tel Aviv Review of Books A nurturer of plants who is careful not to waste even a single seed and mourns the death of a tree, Shalev is a lyrical stylist and philosopher who writes with passion and humor. Drawings by Shir enhance the text. --Sue O'Brien, Library Journal Charming musings on the 'moments of bliss' found in the garden . . . in which gardening teaches perspective and the rewards of hard work . . . Rests on solid botanical knowledge but is never heavy-handed. --Kirkus Reviews A nurturer of plants who is careful not to waste even a single seed and mourns the death of a tree, Shalev is a lyrical stylist and philosopher who writes with passion and humor. Drawings by Shir enhance the text. --Sue O'Brien, Library Journal Charming musings on the 'moments of bliss' found in the garden . . . in which gardening teaches perspective and the rewards of hard work . . . Rests on solid botanical knowledge but is never heavy-handed. --Kirkus Reviews Insightful, funny . . . Full of wisdom . . . You come away from the garden memoir with a clear sense of the author--his concerns, his surroundings, his loves--and a string of reverberating questions. Why, for example, as Shalev notes, are so few flowers mentioned in the Bible? What does that say about us as a people? And why do the poppies sway--even when the air is still? . . . I went to sleep every night with the smell of fresh figs and lemons and the sound of birdsong in my ears and the image of Shalev's beloved black cat, Kramer, the hero of many of his Hebrew children's stories, sleeping the day away beneath the buckthorn tree. --Mitch Ginsburg, The Times of Israel A nurturer of plants who is careful not to waste even a single seed and mourns the death of a tree, Shalev is a lyrical stylist and philosopher who writes with passion and humor. Drawings by Shir enhance the text. --Sue O'Brien, Library Journal Charming musings on the 'moments of bliss' found in the garden . . . in which gardening teaches perspective and the rewards of hard work . . . Rests on solid botanical knowledge but is never heavy-handed. --Kirkus Reviews Author InformationOne of Israel's most celebrated novelists, MEIR SHALEV was born in 1948 on Nahalal, Israel's first moshav. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and his honors include the National Jewish Book Award and Israel's Brenner Prize for A Pigeon and a Boy. He died in 2023. JOANNA CHEN is the translator of Less Like a Dove and Frayed Light. She is a columnist for the Los Angeles Review of Books. REFAELLA SHIR is an Israeli artist who lives in Montreal. She studied art in Israel, Canada, and the United States and has exhibited internationally. Her work can be viewed at refaellashir.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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