A modern classic, City of Many Days traces the interwoven lives of residents of Jerusalem in the years of the British mandate—and the decades that formed the city’s modern character. Through her unique polyphonic writing, Shulamith Hareven creates characters who are at once empathetic, intriguing, and familiar. Homebodies and prostitutes, Arabs and Jews, patriots and recluses, military men and country cooks, informers and rebels—they all make up an unforgettable mosaic of the shimmering city, Jerusalem.