Lovers Amir and Noah decide to live together. He studies at the University of Tel Aviv, she is at an art school in Jerusalem, so their choice is a small apartment in a settlement located just in the middle between the two cities ...This is a book about how two young people start a life together, find their first common home. About how the lives of other people penetrate into this house, into their lives - behind a thin wall, a husband and wife are in conflict over the religious upbringing of their children | neighbors across the street mourn the loss of their eldest son, who died in Lebanon, ceasing to pay attention to his younger son, who needs him so much | from a construction site just down the street, their house is closely watched by an elderly Palestinian worker who remembers well that his family was once evicted from it ..."Homesickness" is a beautiful, intelligent, touching story about country, about love, about family and about the importance of a home in a person's life.