Contents

Cover

Also by Meir Shalev

Title Page

Copyright

In Lieu of a Preface

1. A New Place

2. Sea Squill

3. Cyclamen

4. Wild Trees

5. Long Gone

6. Work Tools

7. Mole Rat

8. The Mukhraka

9. Ants

10. Fruit Trees

11. Home and Away

12. Sabras

13. Seasons

14. Weeding

15. Big Trees

16. A Night in the Garden

17. A Sorrowful Song

18. Anemones

19. Italy in the Garden

20. Grass

21. A Prayer for Rain

22. Chopping Down

23. Poppies

24. Moments of Bliss

25. Land

26. Collecting and Other Dangers

27. The Great Snapdragon

28. Kramer the Cat

29. Splendid Bindweed

30. Cracked Olives

31. Two Moons of Sowing

32. Patience

33. Barefoot

34. Figs

35. Wasp Nest

36. Lupines

37. Just Like Bavaria

38. Procrastination and Ridicule

39. The Stupid Woodpecker

40. The Locked Garden

41. Compost in the Composter

42. Spiders and Snakes

43. Further Dangers

44. Tree of the Field

45. Date and Carob

46. “Oh Oh Virgin’s Bower”

47. The Lemon Tree

About the Author

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