Mina, lisa

"Orly Castel-Bloom's imagination and humor are wilder than ever in this third novel, drawing the readers into fantastic adventures in a world of twisted logic. Everything, however, begins in a typical Israeli setting. Mina, a happy 38-year-old housewife, looks after her husband Oved, her three children and her home. Enter Flora, her husband's grandmother, who comes to live with them. An old lady like any other? Not quite. Flora throws her food out the window and eats paper instead. More precisely, she devours Mina's screenplays, stashed in drawers, because she is convinced they will never be made into films. "She has already eaten real masterpieces," Oved tells Mina, revealing that Flora is more than 200 years old."-- Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature website.