Past Perfect: A Novel

Yaakov Shabtai

1984

In the middle of the summer Meir’s father gave in to his uncle and aunt’s pleas and went away with them to spend a week in the country, and in obedience to his request Meir went over to the apartment after a day or two to see that nobody had broken in and that everything was in order, and as he approached the building, with the dusty hibiscus hedge…

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Creator Bio

Yaakov Shabtai

1934–1981

Yaakov Shabtai was a prose writer and playwright, born in Tel Aviv. Shabtai was influential in shaping a naturalist, vernacular style in Israeli literature. His book Zikhron devarim (Past Continuous; 1977) is considered a classic of Israeli literature. Many of his books and plays were translated and acclaimed abroad; he also translated English classic plays into Hebrew. Shabtai received the Agnon Prize posthumously.

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