La casa delle grandi donne

Synopsis of La casa delle grandi donne

«La casa delle grandi donne» is the novel by Meir Shalev, published by Sperling & Kupfer in hardcover (410 pages, in Italian).

Rafael Meyer, the only male in his family to have reached the age of fifty-two, watches over irrigation canals in the Negev. Facing his imminent death, he recalls his story, marked by five women: his mother, his grandmother, his two aunts, and his sister. With irony, sweetness, and nostalgia, the novel portrays a man raised under a collective maternal figure.

The edition was published on January 31, 2006.