"The First Sharab" is a candid personal portrait, leading the author from the Tel Aviv of his childhood to the Paris of his youth, and back to the present. It is a fascinating chronicle of coming of age: a cultural and literary maturation, which is also an emotional, intellectual, and sexual maturation. Dori Manor sketches the moments that shaped his life as a young man and changed it irrevocably: moments of anxiety and desire, of awe and terror, and of a feverish openness to the world. He writes about his childhood in Tel Aviv with a spy-catching mother and a Yake-Tzabar father, about the first lullabies he heard, about the window to the world that opened thanks to British pop of the 1980s, about the French teacher in high school who changed his life, about the first reading of the book Job, about the discovery of homosexuality, about his acquaintance with Charles Baudelaire and his songs of hashish and opium, about the first translations and first works, about the soulful conversations with Dalia Rabikovitz and Avraham Sutzkever, about the fateful meetings with Allen Ginsberg, about Caravaggio's "Narcissus" and more. "The First Shravan" - a beautiful portrait of a generation and a place - is Dori Manor's first prose book. *To read the book in digital format, you must download one of the popular free programs, including "EPUB reader" or "Caliber."