1996 Nominated
The Book of Intimate Grammar
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child’s body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Betsy
Rosenberg
Betsy Rosenberg is a translator of Hebrew prose and poetry, and editor of literary and scholarly works. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her formative years in Haifa, Israel, Dayton, Ohio, and Michigan City, Indiana and has lived in Jerusalem since 1967. Rosenberg attended Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and continued her studies in musicology, literature, comparative linguistics and Classical Greek at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Rubin Academy of Music.
Betsy Rosenberg is a translator of Hebrew prose and poetry, and editor of literary and scholarly works. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her formative years in Haifa, Israel, Dayton, Ohio, and Michigan City, Indiana and has lived in Jerusalem since 1967. Rosenberg attended Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and continued her studies in musicology, literature, comparative linguistics and Classical Greek at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Rubin Academy of Music.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
USA
Original Language
Hebrew
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Translator
Betsy Rosenberg
Nominating Library