Description: 'Preliminaries' progresses frame by frame, showing a boy growing up in a Jewish farming community in Palestine and in the young city of Tel Aviv between the years 1917 and 1930.
Review Quotes: Once again ÝYizhar¨ successfully undertakes all of those tasks for which he was honored in the past. This book is one of the most beautiful childhood memories ever written. -- Book Review "Neue Zuericher Zeitung"