My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden

by Meir Shalev

Joanna Chen (Translator)

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A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow
 
On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques.  He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple snapdragon from the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, and does battle with a saboteur...Read more
  • ISBN10 0805243518
  • ISBN13 9780805243512
  • Publish Date 31 March 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Schocken Books