An amazing story about how three men loved one woman, who became the mother of their common son, a boy with the strange name Zeide. The book describes the events that took place in one of the villages of the Jezreel Valley from the twenties to the fifties. The fates of the main characters of the story - Judith, Zeide's mother, Moshe Rabinovich, a gloomy widower-strongman, Globerman, a cattle dealer, charming in his rudeness, and Yaakov Sheinfeld, a bird breeder who became an expert in wedding dancing, sewing wedding dresses and preparing wedding tables for one -the only wedding - turned out to be fragments of a mysterious pattern, the full picture of which becomes clear only on the last pages of the book. The colorful inhabitants of the village - numerous relatives, an albino accountant, an Italian prisoner of war Salvatore, as well as a young cow Rachel, who looks like a bull, crows, canaries, Angel Deaths, a paper boat, an old green truck, a golden braid cut in childhood, and a gigantic eucalyptus - they are all characters in this magical pattern. “A Few Days” is one of the most beloved works by readers of the famous Israeli writer Meir Shalev, popular and revered throughout the world. all over the world. The novel has been translated into more than twenty languages. A film based on the work is currently being shot in Italy.