{"product_id":"growing-up-with-israel-book-chaim-klein-9780936315492","title":"Growing up with Israel","description":"His parents left Slovakia for Israel in 1949. They lived in a moshav where Hungarian was the language. Housing was spartan conditions rough - a thin strip of land, one cow, a lone tree. School was primitive, fun what children could make for themselves between study and agricultural work. Locusts, water shortages and fedayeen came; military service, university. He meets a girl from the diaspora, marries, has children, travels, works. This is a tale of an individual growing up at the same time as his country, told from the inside, without polemic or artifice. Past disaster and future hopes frame a figure in a landscape. The self-portrait is etched with simplicity and a fine eye for salient detail.CHAIM KLEIN is married to the journalist and author Emma Klein, n e Solomon, and lives mainly in London. They have two sons and two grandsons. English is his third working language. This is his first book.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49589623849233,"sku":"GOR013337481","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0936315490.jpg?v=1751444498","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/growing-up-with-israel-book-chaim-klein-9780936315492","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}