My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden by Meir Shalev [Hardback, 304 pages]

Description: A joyful round of the seasons 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 to the west, Meir Shalev has a large 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; does battle with a saboteur mole rat. He even gives us his superior private recipe for curing olives. The book will attract gardeners and literary readers alike, with its appreciation for the joy of living, quite literally, on earth, and for our borrowed time on a particular patch of it--enhanced, the author continually reminds us, by our honest, respectful dealings with all manner of beings who inhabit it with us. One of Israel's most celebrated novelists, MEIR SHALEV was born in 1948 on Nahalal, Israel's first moshav. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and his honors include the National Jewish Book Award and Israel's Brenner Prize for A Pigeon and a Boy. JOANNA CHEN is the translator of Less Like a Dove and Frayed Light. She is a columnist for the Los Angeles Review of Books. REFAELLA SHIR is an Israeli artist who lives in Montreal. She studied art in Israel, Canada, and the United States and has exhibited internationally. Her work can be viewed at . In Lieu of a Preface . . . vii 1. A New Place . . . 3 2. Sea Squill . . . 10 3. Cyclamen . . . 18 4. Wild Trees . . . 23 5. Long Gone . . . 28 6. Work Tools . . . 33 7. Mole Rat . . . 41 8. The Mukhraka . . . 50 9. Ants . . . 54 10. Fruit Trees . . . 62 11. Home and Away . . . 68 12. Sabras . . . 72 13. Seasons . . . 79 14. Weeding . . . 87 15. Big Trees . . . 95 16. A Night in the Garden . . . 101 17. A Sorrowful Song . . . 106 18. Anemones . . . 109 19. Italy in the Garden . . . 114 20. Grass . . . 121 21. A Prayer for Rain . . . 126 22. Chopping Down . . . 133 23. Poppies . . . 138 24. Moments of Bliss . . . 144 25. Land . . . 151 26. Collecting and Other Dangers . . . 156 27. The Great Snapdragon . . . 164 28. Kramer the Cat . . . 168 29. Splendid Bindweed . . . 172 30. Cracked Olives . . . 176 31. Two Moons of Sowing . . . 182 32. Patience . . . 190 33. Barefoot . . . 194 34. Figs . . . 199 35. Wasp Nest . . . 205 36. Lupines . . . 209 37. Just Like Bavaria . . . 213 38. Procrastination and Ridicule . . . 218 39. The Stupid Woodpecker . . . 225 40. The Locked Garden . . . 230 41. Compost in the Composter . . . 236 42. Spiders and Snakes . . . 242 43. Further Dangers . . . 248 44. Tree of the Field . . . 257 45. Date and Carob . . . 264 46. "Oh Oh Virgin's Bower" . . . 270 47. The Lemon Tree . . . 276 Acknowledgments . . . 281

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