SUMMER TEMPEST

A synopsis of the novel/thriller Summer Tempest.

Summer Tempest

 Synopsis

The plot of this novel relates the era of the late 90s up to the beginning of the current century, the tumultuous times of suicide bombers and car bombs' attacks in Israel, and the 9/11 disaster. The two protagonists are Yoske (Joseph) Solan and Erella Zingman Abrahams, both of them and their relatives and friends represent the generation that was born at about the time of the State of Israel's war of Independence (1947), during the late 40s and up to the beginning of the 50s of the previous century. Yoske Solan was a group instructor in a youth movement where he met Erella his ex flame and Nehama his wife. They own a pastry shop in Tel Aviv, while Erella is married to an American tycoon and lives in New York, while visiting her young sister Vivi, Erella manages to reach stealthily Yoske her ex flame, and gets involved in a sensual love affair with him.

One more pair that plays a main role in the Novel's plot are Talma and Ruvke Etsioni, which are Nehama and Yoske Solan close friends.

Here is a short excerpt of this novel:

'It happened as a matter of fact at the same evening that you dated Amnon, or more accurately it started at my Saturday furlough. I'd called you on Friday and you said that you're going with your parents to some family gathering, do you remember? A couple of weeks earlier we started to date, we spent a certain Saturday together on the beach, this very beach behind the hotel's walls…' 'Oh yes, you're right Yoske I do remember,' she admitted laughing. 'Come on Yoske it was ages ago. You didn't think that I would get hurt by reminding it to me, it was simply unpleasant to you to talk about your failure. It hurts you doesn't it?'  'Sure it hurts me,' Yoske admitted. It was a terrible humiliation to bear because I was looking for you and I passed near your parents' house on that evening; not because I didn't believe you, but because we'd a very rough period of training during those couple of weeks before that furlough, and I dreamed on the moment that I'll come and see you again. That's what kept me going during those couple of weeks. Well I passed near your house because I didn't have anything else to do, and I saw Amnon sitting in his father's Studebaker and blowing the horn. Hardly a moment passed and you came down dressed as if you were going to a party, you can imagine very well how I felt when I saw you…'

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