The Way to the Cats

Yehoshua Kenaz

1991

A dull, rhythmic tremor thudded inside the room over and over again, as if someone was pounding on the wall behind her head with his fists. She sat up in bed and tried to get up. After several vain attempts she succeeded in getting to her feet, put a dressing gown over her sweaty nightdress, and went to open the windows and the balcony doors. Now…

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Yehoshua Kenaz

1937–2020

Yehoshua Kenaz is an author, editor, and translator, born and raised in Petaḥ Tikva. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was an editor of the literary quarterly Keshet, of Maḥbarot lesifrut, and of the literary supplement of Haaretz. Many of Kenaz’s books have been dramatized and adapted for film and the stage. Kenaz received the Bialik Prize in 1997.

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