House of Windows
Portraits From a Jerusalem Neighborhood
A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world’s most fascinating and divided city.
In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman’s House of Windows compellingly evokes Jerusalem through the prism of the neighborhood where she has lived for eight years since moving from the United States. In a series of interlocking sketches and intimate portraits of the inhabitants of Musrara, a neighborhood on the border of the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city–a Sephardic grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten–Hoffman…
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August 29, 2012
ADINA HOFFMAN is the author of several books, including House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City. Sacred Trash, co-written with Peter Cole, was winner of the 2012 American Library Association's Sophie Brody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Hoffman was named one of the inaugural (2013) winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prize.
Sacred Trash
Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole