{"product_id":"petty-business-paperback","title":"Petty Business - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYirmi Pinkus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEvan Fallenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eYardenne Greenspan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has fallen on hard times with a failing perfumery business. Soon, more and more relatives join in on the trip, and the expenses quickly begin to add up. To gather all the funds needed, the family goes into the business of inexpensive clothing and fashion shows for workers' unions. The summer promises handsome revenues, but as the Zinman family nears their goal, they become increasingly vexed by their competing interests. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tragic-comic novel in its essence, \u003ci\u003e Petty Business\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a year in one family's life, set against the backdrop of Tel Aviv's rapidly changing global economy in the early 1990s. Pinkus's biting critique of Tel Aviv's provincial character and its residents' shtetl mentality is delivered with a perfect combination of wit, humor, and tender pathos.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYirmi Pinkus\u003c\/b\u003e is an Israeli writer and illustrator living in Tel Aviv. From 1996 to 2011 he was a member of the Actus independent comics group. \u003ci\u003ePetty Business\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the 2013 Sapir prize and awarded the 2014 Literary Prize by The Israel Institute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYardenne Greenspan\u003c\/b\u003e holds an MFA in fiction and translation from Columbia University. In 2011 she received the American Literary Translators' Association Fellowship, and in 2014 she was a resident writer and translator at Ledig House's Writers Omi program. Her translation of Shemi Zarhin's \u003ci\u003eSome Day\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen for \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e's 2013 list of notable translations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvan Fallenberg \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eLight Fell, When We Danced on Water, and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Parting Gift, \u003c\/i\u003e and translator of Israeli novels, plays, and libretti. He has won or been shortlisted for the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award for Literature, the Edmund White Award, and the PEN Translation Prize, among others.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.85 x 6.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722489794623,"sku":"9780815610915","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d1657b9572fed22cf4a969d076878313.webp?v=1765095929","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/petty-business-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}