Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali [Hebrew]

by Orit Gidali

This English-Hebrew book features three dozen poems by the extraordinary Israeli writer Orit Gidali (b. 1974), a unique voice among her contemporaries. Gidali's work appears to focus on the domestic, but for her, the domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama of the geopolitical is reworked on an individual scale. The domestic is always inhabited by the Other, who in these deeply personal poems appears in various guises: a Palestinian mother,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Hebrew
• ISBN: 1477309578
• ISBN13: 9781477309575
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"