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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