Shalva
What are children's stories, but flights of the imagination of adults. A world that adults cannot usually re-enter. Mahla Levin is the exception. She reclaims an unlived childhood through marrying Clive, the loving man who enables her to write as she was meant to.
The house they buy, Shalva, is the setting where Mahla discovers herself and her creative abilities. Most of all, it is the home she and Clive will transform from neglect into a paradise for their three children. A home where they learn to love life. Until an unforeseen tragedy strikes the family; impacting them in different ways. Turning them 'from a family of individuals' into 'individuals without a family'.
Shalva is a metaphor for the family and their story. Just as Shalva will never be completed, there is an unfinished story to one of the children's lives.
Where there is love, a loss is always harrowing, but none more so than when it is the loss of a loved child.
In her poetic style of prose, Sylvie Schapira paints the pictures of the family, bringing them to life; that is at once realistic and fantastical, not unlike Mahla's children's stories.
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