On the morning of the Sabbath, prominent psychiatrist Eva Neidorf is found murdered in her office at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute minutes before she is scheduled to deliver a lecture. Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon of the Jerusalem police has few clues but plenty of suspects including the Institute's psychiatrists and the victim's own ...
Aharon Appelfeld's third novel is about the simpleminded and mute daughter in a large Jewish family. Set against the background of the Holocaust, the story takes the eponymous Tzili through a world she is unable to understand. Abandoned when her family flees the Nazis, Tzili endures a life of hardship, finally meeting up with a bizarre, mentally ...
A shocking double murder at Israel's top academic institution brings Superintendent Michael Ohayon to the scene to probe the nature of creativity and unravel the mystery. "A complex mystery set in an unusual, well-developed milieu with a full cast of multidimensional characters".--Los Angeles Times.
Celebrating Israel's 50th anniversary, an anthology of novellas by six contemporary Israeli authors. Included in this overview are works such as Aharon Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St George", David Grossman's "Yani on the Mountain" and "Shrinking Lyrically" by Ruth Almog.
In Jerusalem, an admired poet and critic, and professor of literature at Hebrew University, is murdered. Around the same time, a bright young member of his department dies in a scuba-diving accident. Surrounded by ethical dilemmas about the relationship between the artist and his creation, as well as plagiarism, Detective Superintendent Michael ...
The Rosendorf Quartet is both a deft portrait of the complexities and contradictions that have gone to make up the state of Israel and a stunning tribute to the curative powers of music, in whose realm dissonance, politics, and personal anguish dissolve into art, transcending human conflict and national boundaries.
In this Israeli novel, Udi becomes paralyzed--literally. He can't move. Doctors find nothing wrong, and his wife Naama eventually realizes that their stagnant marriage is at fault. Naama tries many cures, but it's only when an acupuncturist gives her some words of wisdom that she sees a way out of Udi's dilemma.
Hezi, who is married, is involved in an affair with Gabi, and they rent an apartment in Tel Aviv where they can meet secretly. Gradually, Gabi begins to wonder about who Hezi really is. A brutal murder brings things to a climax in this story about urban isolation and the difficulty of making real connections.
This is an Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank chronicle romantic trysts with her female teacher. Written by best-selling Israeli author Judith Katzir, this is a stirring record of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s and the story of a hidden, erotic love affair between a teenaged girl and her married teacher, Michaela. After ...
From the acclaimed Steerforth Press comes this translated novel written by one of Israel's best novelists. Kenaz explores life inside a Tel Aviv geriatric hospital through the eyes of Yolanda Moscowitz, a 76-year-old retired French who has suffered a crippling fall. Here she meets up with an eclectic cast of characters: friends, seducers, ...
This collection of four stories, that take place in Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, follow a boy from his childhood through adolescence, until he is on the verge of manhood.
"Endless surprise twists and hilarious scenes. The finale leaves one happily astonished."-Elena Loewenthal, "La Stampa" "Starts out as a psychological drama and becomes a strange, funny, unexpected hybrid: a farce thriller. A great book."-"Ma'ariv" Ilan, a middle-aged professor of astrophysics, discovers that his young wife is having an affair. ...
Raja Shehadeh, the author of STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE, documents the 2002 Israeli military actions in Ramallah on the West Bank and their effects on the Palestinian population. In this journal, he records everyday events as well as his own perspective on the Oslo accords, the Palestinian Authority, the Sharon administration, and the prospects for ...
Originally published in Hebrew in 1974, "A Funeral At Noon" concerns the housewife Hagar Erlich, caught up in a torpor which prevents her from responding to her busy husband or to her own need for fulfillment. She finds herself in a nearly maternal relationship with a young boy named Yiftach, the 10-year-old for whom she is responsible. ...
In this elaborate tale of love and death, the lives and reflections of four remarkable protagonists unfold through dramatic intersecting narrations. These characters are a sensitive writer; an ambitious academic, handicapped by limited self-awareness; a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist; a gifted doomed poet who suffered through the ...
Works by six of Israel 's most important contemporary authors. Included are Ahron Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St George", in which a fugitive black marketeer is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island where his past, his nationality, and his very sense of identity are resolved.
Dolly City is an irreverent and witty satire about the 'Yiddisher mamma complex'. Drifting and alienated in a hostile city, Mother Dolly doctors her son with a love that destroys, until she learns the meaning of compassion. Orly Castel-Bloom won the 1992 Prime Minister's Prize for Literature and the 1996 Natan Alternan Prize for Literature.
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