And the Bride Closed the Door

✍ Scribed by Cohen, Jessica;Matalon, Ronit

• Book ID: 100569252
• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 309 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1939931789

✦ Synopsis

A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride's mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her better than anyone. A male cousin who likes to wear women's clothes and jewelry clings to his grandmother like a little boy. And then there is the despairing groom, Matti, trying to decipher his beloved's last-minute refusal. The family tries an array of unusual tactics to ensure the wedding goes ahead, including a psychologist specializing in brides who change their mind and a ladder truck from the Palestinian Authority electrical company. The only communication they receive from behind the door are scribbled notes, one of them a cryptic poem about a prodigal daughter returning home. The harder they try to reach the defiant woman, the...
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Single Author : Ronit Matalon
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✦ Subjects

Mariage -- Romans, nouvelles, etc