The Loves of Judith by Meir Shalev

The Loves of Judith by Meir Shalev

A woman with three loves and a son with three fathers: a universal story of passion and personal destiny by the award-winning author of A Pigeon and a Boy.
 
When the mysterious Judith arrives in a small agricultural village in Palestine in the 1930s, she attracts attention of three men: Moshe, a widowed farmer; Globerman, a wealthy cattle dealer; and Jacob, who loses his wife--the most beautiful woman in the village--because of his obsession with Judith, who insists on living in a cowshed rather than settling down with any of her admirers. When she gives birth to Zayde, all three suitors consider him their son, and Zayde, who tragically loses Judith, imbibes their triple wisdom and their distinct versions of his origins. As Zayde pieces together the beguiling story of the singular woman who was his mother, Meir Shalev weaves a magical novel of the joys and secrets of village life, of an unconventional family, and the unexpected fruits of love.

MEIR SHALEV, a.k.a. MEIR SHALEV, was born in the 1948) is one of Israel's most famous authors. He being the author of six novels, the most recent of which is A Pigeon and a Boy, as well as five nonfiction works, which have been translated into over 20 languages. Shalev, a journalist for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, lives with his wife and children in Jerusalem and the north of Israel. He has won Israel's top literary award, the Brenner Prize, as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and numerous other international awards. This is an excerpt from the Hardcover edition.