{"id":322264,"date":"2025-05-12T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/?post_type=product&#038;p=322264"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:09:43","slug":"apricot-season","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/en\/publication\/apricot-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Apricot Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The novel <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Apricot Season<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> revives the mythology of the fruit of Paradise, with its short season and the longing for it. This is an imaginary biography about human beings and nature, in a place where nature is an inseparable part of the culture. The plot moves between the past and the present, and this motion<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">brings us into the inner world of its protagonist, Tarek, to the depths of his consciousness, to the memories of his childhood in Umm al-Fahm, but also lays out the changes the place underwent in recent decades\u2014changes that are revealed clearly to him when he returns there after a lengthy absence. The village has grown, but like many other Palestinian villages, officially listed as cities, it has become a jumbled space lacking any urban centers or infrastructure, made up of large, unintelligible areas. Agbaria\u2019s book offers<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">a nostalgic journey that subverts the nostalgia principle and situates itself in the blurry space between utopia and dystopia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Apricot Season <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the first novel ever written about Umm al-Fahm, and it is interwoven with the history of the country and the mythological strata of the place in the past hundred years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis special novel is based on two fundamentally contradictory moves. 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