Every Home Needs A Balcony

Every Home Needs A Balcony by Rina Frank


Authors
Rina Frank
ISBN
9780007353675
Published
Released
02 / 05 / 2011
Binding
Paperback
Pages
300
Dimensions
130 x 197mm

Braiding together the past and present, EVERY HOME NEEDS A BALCONY relays the life story of a young Jewish girl, the child of Romanian immigrants, who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel.

Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and her parents inhabit a cramped apartment with a narrow balcony that becomes an intimate, shared stage on which the joys and dramas of the building?s daily life are played out. It also a window through which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country, born from the ashes of World War II. While her mother cleans houses and her father drifts from job to job, as the years pass Rina becomes desperate to escape her crowded, dirty surroundings. Eventually she falls in love with a wealthy Spaniard and moves to a luxury apartment in Barcelona.

Yet although she enjoys money and status in her new land, it is not Israel. Longing for the past, Rina, now pregnant, returns to the simple life she has missed - a move that soothes her soul, but destroys her marriage. Alone, raising a new baby, her pain is compounded by the death of her sister -- her best friend -- and the realization that no matter how much she yearns for the past, the old Haifa of her boisterous youth has gone.

Told with the light touch of a humorous, incredibly dexterous writer, EVERY HOME NEEDS A BALCONY reveals how our choices shape us - and how we learn to survive life's most surprising turns..
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