"Her stories plunge the reader directly into an unmediated world of subjective feeling. Usually the subjects of her novels and stories are young women facing the problems of growing up and contending with romantic attachments. In a later novel, With Her on Her Way Home (1991), she deals with the problems of growing old. Kahana-Carmon's language is carefully shaped and unadorned, but possessing an idiosyncratic subtlety that makes translation difficult."
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Glenda Abramson in The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories (1996)
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Hebrew: עמליה כהנא-כרמון) (18 October 1926 - 16 January 2019) was an author and literary critic who lived in Israel most of her life. She was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 2000.
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