Bis es wieder regnet

The new female voice from Israel.As diverse as a mosaic and as deep as a well - this astonishing debut novel tells the story of the Israeli Steinmann family over a good hundred years: from the founding of a settlement village in the Jezreel Plain to the present. At the sweltering centre of the novel is the rural village atmosphere of the months of Elul, Tishre and Cheshvan, when people traditionally sow seeds and wait for rain. But what to do when the rain fails to come this time, too? While the pregnant Jael returns to her home village, where her sister Gali wants to celebrate her wedding in vain, while her parents are seemingly unreachable abroad, the grandparents stalk each other like enemies and water theft is part of everyday life, the family secret, which has been painstakingly kept under lock and key, shoots up into the sky like a fountain.A great Israeli family and social novel in the tradition of Meir Shalev. "A raw and surprising novel about big dramas in a small town." Haaretz.