A Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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A mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion—from the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev.

During the 1948 War of Independence—a time when pigeons are stillused to deliver battlefield messages—a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon. The bird is carryinghis extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined withthis story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy fromthe 1948 is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middleage, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend. His growing passion for her,along with a gift from his mother on her deathbed, becomes the key to a life he thoughtno longer possible.

Unforgettable in both its particulars and its sweep, A Pigeonand A Boy is a tale of lovers then and now—of how deeply we love, of what home is,and why we, like pigeons trained to fly in one direction only, must eventually returnto it. In a voice that is at once playful, wise, and altogether beguiling, MeirShalev tells a story as universal as war and as intimate as a winged declarationof love.