Leading Israeli novelist Sami Michael shares his gift for navigating the cultural conflicts in modern Israel with A Trumpet in the Wadi , a novel that transcends its Middle Eastern setting with an honest and heartbreaking story of impossible love and the strength of family.
The film adaptation of A Trumpet in the Wadi won the 2001 Israel Academy Film Award for Best Drama..
He lives in Haifa, Israel.
The winner of numerous literary and humanitarian prizes, he is president of the Israeli Association for Human Rights and the author of eight novels, including the international bestseller Victoria.
An advocate against the oppressive regime in Iraq during World War II, he fled to Iran and made his way to Israel in 1949.
About the Author: Sami Michael was born in Baghdad in 1926.
A Trumpet in the Wadi is an honest, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking story -- one that draws on the conflicts in the Middle East, but one whose insights into love and family can cross all cultural and political boundaries.
Michael\'s internationally acclaimed novel is a major achievement, illuminating the vast range of interlocking relationships between Jews and Arabs, Muslims and Christians, men and women.
The melodies of the soulful Trumpet player become the intoxicating theme music for Huda\'s unexpected reawakening -- and for Mary\'s dangerous foray into a love triangle with the heir of the local Muslim mob and her country cousin.
Wrapped in the love of their sometimes bitter mother, their iconoclast grandfather, and the cheerful and omnipresent neighbor Jamilla, the sisters\' lives change when a peculiar young Russian Jewish immigrant, Alex, moves into the upstairs flat.
Her younger sister, Mary, is voluptuous, carnal, and perennially unemployed.
Huda, the narrator of the story, is thin and withdrawn and, after abandoning her chance at marriage a few years back, has prematurely resigned herself to the monotonous life of an old maid.
An extraordinary bond of love and mutual respect unites the sisters -- polar opposites from their appearances to their tempers.
Set in the months preceding the 1982 Israeli-Arab conflict in Lebanon, this beautifully written tale is the coming-of-age story of two fatherless Christian Arab sisters, Huda and Mary, who live in the wadi -- the Arab quarter in the Jewish city of Haifa on the northern coast of Israel.
Leading Israeli novelist Sami Michael shares his gift for navigating the cultural conflicts in modern Israel with A Trumpet in the Wadi , a novel that transcends its Middle Eastern setting with an honest and heartbreaking story of impossible love and the strength of family
