Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor s novella "Yankinton" have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city."

In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor s stories published here for the first time in the original Hebrew appear alongside Ornan Rotem s English translation. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of a world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, and poignant old ladies, not to mention dying dictators and dead poets have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition.
In her...