Facing the Sea

Written in Paris in 1932, this is the story of a couple spending the summer on the French Riviera. Little of their past is revealed in the course of the story. The couple stays in the small hotel of a friendly, expansive landlady and meets other cosmopolitan, middle-class vacationers and the residents of the little village. The novella climaxes when a young French woman visits the husband, who is in bed with a cold, while his wife is away in Nice for the day.




The amazing thing in this story, written in Paris in 1932, is that it brings back those years and that atmosphere, described as though it were today.
La Repubblica

David Vogel is a master. There is so much eroticism here… Vogel’s great talent is expressed particularly in his silences, in what he does not say.
Corriere della Sera

A poignant, wonderful novella, snatched from oblivion, by one of the greatest Hebrew writers of the 20th century.
Il Giornale 

Facing the Sea has a Scott Fitzgeraldian feel to it; it is always elegantly suggestive and conveys how random, small choices in life may lead to dramatic outcomes.
Vanity Fair