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From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their new land: dirt. Grandma Tonia was never seen without a cleaning rag over her shoulder. She received visitors outdoors. She allowed only the most privileged guests to enter her spotless house. Hilarious and touching, Grandma Tonia and her regulations come richly to life in a narrative that circles around the arrival into the family’s dusty agricultural midst of the big, shiny American sweeper sent as a gift by Great-uncle Yeshayahu (he who had shockingly emigrated to the sinful capitalist heaven of Los Angeles!). America, to little Meir and to his forebears, was a land of hedonism and enchanting progress; of tempting luxuries, dangerous music, and degenerate gum-chewing; and of women with painted fingernails. The sweeper, a stealth weapon from Grandpa Aharon’s American brother meant to beguile the hardworking socialist household with a bit of American ease, was symbolic of the conflicts and visions of the family in every respect. The fate of Tonia’s “svieeperrr”—hidden away for decades in a spotless closed-off bathroom after its initial use—is a family mystery that Shalev determines to solve. The result, in this cheerful translation by Evan Fallenberg, is pure delight, as Shalev brings to life the obsessive but loving Tonia, the pioneers who gave his childhood its spirit of wonder, and the grit and humor of people building ever-new lives.

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Audio Book My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir with FREE MOBI EDITION!

The plot of the novel takes place in the 20ies of the last century in Palestine. A young Russian Jewish settler, her complete aversion to any home of dirt and dust, and intricate procedures that she developed to uphold cleanliness in the house, are depicted by Meir Shalev, a famous Israeli writer, her grandson. Place, where the Jewish pioneers "moshavniki" lived, is all clay and marshland; however, the Zionist spirit took precedence over neurosis inhereted by immigrants from Europe. The heroine Tonya Ben-Barak and her never-ending battle against dirt, has been heartily and humorously described in this novel. In this fascinating chronicle, along with competing and sometimes apocryphal family legends, history and fiction have joined together. The book, "My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner " is a fascinating English translation from Hebrew, representing a masterpiece by itself. In further reading, Tonya accepted the pioneer spirit and contributed to the flourishing of the Jewish homeland. She is a disciplined worker who expects from everyone else living on the farm, including animals, such an effort. Chicken, which puts too few eggs, is risking to appear in the menu for Saturday dinner. Tony's life could have been very different if she had emigrated to America as her husband's brother Aaron, Yeshayahu, did. Alas, this did not happen: Tonya remains committed to the Jewish dream; and, as any stubborn personality needs an enemy, her enemy is the dirt. Tonya's own house, where the everyday life is intertwined with the fighting dirt and dust, and where even her family aren't allowed , a mythical object is hidden in backrooms. The object remains a mystery even for her children for many years. The General Electric Vacuum Cleaner that had been shipped from Los Angeles by a brother of her husband, a successful American businesman, represents a core, around which the main intrigue is revolving. Sequentially opening the secret of the vacuum cleaner, the author takes the reader along, describing the characters and events in elaborate, full of irony language. The story of Grandma Tonia and her "swipper" is written in the genre of a family detective, where all are to stay alive.

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