My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir (Hardcover)

from Carolee888

I enjoyed 'My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Clear' a great deal. It does tend to meander a little. Sometimes the meandering just enriches the main story; sometimes I think it is actually material for a different book. Meir Shalev's grandmother is the star of this book. Grandmother T...

from fearless2012

I liked this book for its cover. :P (Even though I really did read the whole thing.) (8/10)

from Wassilissa

Meir Shalev schreibt in der Regel wunderbare Bücher über das leben in Israel kurz vor und nach der Gründung des Staates. Oft geht es um das Leben in der Moshav, um die Anfordernisse der Landwirtschaft in dieser unwirtlichen Gegend, um das Zusammenleben in der Gemeinschaft. Er erzählt von skurrile...

from mlake

In My Russian Grandmother and her American Vacuum Cleaner Meir Shalev writes a love letter to his grandma Tonia. Tonia is a Russian woman living in Palestine and waging war on dirt. Every doorknob and handle has its own dust rag to keep dirty hands off and dust at bay. Showers are taken outside t...

from suesbooks

This was a moderately interesting book with too many unimportant, uninteresting details. The writing was nowhere the quality of A Pigeon and a Boy, which I thought was excellent. I learned about life in Israel, but most of the characters were not well developed.