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Authors: Rina Frank
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“Couldn't be better. My wife has just given birth to a baby boy, and I wanted to invite you to the bris milah.”
“Thank you, Prophet Samuel. Congratulations. Mazel tov. I'll be happy to come. Where are you holding the bris?”
“At home. In our garden,” Shmuel answered her.
The author of three novels,
RINA FRANK
was born in Wadi Salib, the poorest neighborhood in Haifa. She worked as a technical architect, marketing director, and television producer with Israel's Channel 2 before founding her own production company, Matan TV Production.
Every House Needs a Balcony
is her first novel. She lives in Tel Aviv.
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EVERY HOUSE NEEDS A BALCONY
. Copyright © 2006 by Rina Frank. English translation copyright © 2010 by Ora Cummings. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First published in Israel in 2006 by Miskal-Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books.
FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199799-0
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