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Every Wrinkle Has a Story
David Grossman; Illustrated by Ninamasina; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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A chance encounter in New York brings two strangers together: Liat
is an idealistic translation student, Hilmi a talented young
painter. Together they explore the city, share fantasies, jokes and
homemade meals, and fall in love. There is only one problem: Liat
is from Israel, Hilmi from Palestine. Keeping their deepening
relationship secret, the two lovers build an intimate universe for
two in this city far from home. But outside reality can only be
kept at bay for so long. After a tempestuous visit from Hilmi's
brother, cracks begin to form in the relationship, and their points
of difference - Liat's military service, Hilmi's hopes for
Palestine's future - threaten to overwhelm their shared present.
When they return separately to their divided countries, Liat and
Hilmi must decide whether to keep going, or let go. A prizewinning
bestseller, but banned in Israeli schools for its frank and tender
depiction of a taboo relationship, this is the deeply affecting
story of two people trying to bridge one of the most deeply riven
borders in the world.
Both investigations began on the same day. One seemed domestic,
almost banal: a newborn is found in a bag outside a hospital and
the woman who left it there is captured after a few hours. The
second investigation appeared stranger and more intriguing: a Swiss
tourist disappeared from a beach-hotel near Tel-Aviv, and a quick
inquiry showed he had been using a fake passport and at least two
names. Can he be a Mossad agent like his daughter claims? And is he
in danger? Inspector Avraham Avraham, wishing to outgrow his usual
cases of domestic violence, is indifferent to the one, and seduced
by the other. Soon he understands he made a wrong choice, as both
investigations spiral into a maze of violence and deception,
leading to Israel's darkest secrets - and threatening to put
Avraham in conflict with the most powerful men in the country, who
technically don't even exist. Conviction is a successful synthesis
of the emotionality of the previous Avraham cases and the
fast-paced, highly suspenseful standalone novel, Three. Once again,
Mishani delivers an almost unbearably tense story, both thrilling
and emotionally involving. It is yet another triumph.
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The Drive (Paperback)
Yair Assulin; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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The Seven Good Years (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris
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Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to
worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack
in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly
tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president
Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and,
perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems
likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd
circumstances is a series of funny, tender ruminations on
everything from his three-year-old son's impending military service
to the terrorist mindset behind Angry Birds. Moving deftly between
the personal and the political, the playful and the profound, The
Seven Good Years takes a life-affirming look at the human need to
find good in the least likely places, and the stories we tell
ourselves to make sense of our capricious world.
This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore
Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist,
diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought
Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native
Americans as a place of refuge for the Jewish people and called it
"Ararat." But no Jews came. What if they had followed Noah's call?
In Nava Semel's alternate history Jews from throughout the world
flee persecution and come to Ararat. Isra Isle becomes the smallest
state in the US. Israel does not exist, and there was no Holocaust.
In exploring this what-if scenario, Semel stimulates new thinking
about memory, Jewish/Israeli identity, attitudes toward minorities,
women in top political positions, and the place of cultural
heritage. The novel is divided into three parts. Part 1, a
detective story, opens in September 2001 when Liam Emanuel, an
Israeli descendant of Noah, learns about and inherits this island.
He leaves Israel intending to reclaim this "Promised Land" in
America. Shortly after he arrives in America Liam disappears. Simon
T. Lenox, a Native American police investigator, tries to recover
Israel's "missing son." Part 2 flashes back to the time and events
surrounding Mordecai Noah's purchase of the island from the local
Native Americans. Part 3 poses an alternate history: the rise of a
successful modern Jewish city-state, Isra Isle, on the northern New
York and Canadian border--a metropolis that looks remarkably like
New York City both before and after 9/11--in which the Jewish
female governor campaigns to become president of the United States.
Nava Semel has published novels, short stories, poetry, plays,
children's books, and a number of TV scripts. Her books have been
translated and published in many countries. Her book, Becoming
Gershona, received the 1990 National Jewish Book Award in the US.
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The Hebrew Teacher
Maya Arad; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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World Shadow (Paperback)
Nir Baram; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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Fly Already (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Nathan Englander, …
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Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into
giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and
call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you
want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's
birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to
get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you
a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high
building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly
already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful
emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the
familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a
collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran
commentator on the circus farce that is life.
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At Night's End (Paperback)
Nir Baram; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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Both investigations began on the same day. One seemed domestic,
almost banal: a newborn is found in a bag outside a hospital and
the woman who left it there is captured after a few hours. The
second investigation appeared stranger and more intriguing: a Swiss
tourist disappeared from a beach-hotel near Tel-Aviv, and a quick
inquiry showed he had been using a fake passport and at least two
names. Can he be a Mossad agent like his daughter claims? And is he
in danger? Inspector Avraham Avraham, wishing to outgrow his usual
cases of domestic violence, is indifferent to the one, and seduced
by the other. Soon he understands he made a wrong choice, as both
investigations spiral into a maze of violence and deception,
leading to Israel's darkest secrets - and threatening to put
Avraham in conflict with the most powerful men in the country, who
technically don't even exist. Conviction is a successful synthesis
of the emotionality of the previous Avraham cases and the
fast-paced, highly suspenseful standalone novel, Three. Once again,
Mishani delivers an almost unbearably tense story, both thrilling
and emotionally involving. It is yet another triumph.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a
comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come
expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling
apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a
matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave,
or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not
so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran
stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he
has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he
had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse
Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals
between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress.
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G
provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't
know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a
former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been
summoned to this performance.
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son
Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a
major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the 'notifiers' who
could arrive at any moment to tell her of her son's fate, she sets
off for a hike in Galilee, leaving no forwarding address. If a
mother is not there to receive the news, a son cannot die, can he?
Recently estranged from her husband, Ora drags along an unlikely
companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, the
man who in fact turns out to be her son's biological father. As
they sleep out in the hills, ford rivers and cross valleys, Ora
recounts, step by step and word by word, the story of her son's
birth, life and possible death, in one mother's magical, passionate
and heartbreaking attempt to keep her son safe from harm.
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The Property (Hardcover)
Rutu Modan; Translated by Jessica Cohen
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INCLUDED ON MORE THAN TEN BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING THE
GUARDIAN, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SALON, AMAZON, AND THE WASHINGTON
POST
"Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to
vivid and often comical life on the page... "The Property" is a]
wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel." --NPR
The award-winning author of "Exit Wounds" returns with a story
about secrets, money, and the bonds of love
"The Property" is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight
readers and critics alike. Savvy and insightful, elegant and
subtle, Rutu Modan's second full-length graphic novel is a triumph
of storytelling and fine lines.
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter
Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the
Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is
forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins
to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little
different than what her grandmother led her to believe.
Modan offers up a world populated by prickly seniors, smart-alecky
public servants, and stubborn women--a world whose realism is
expressed alternately in the absurdity of people's behavior and in
the complex consequences of their sacrifices. Modan's ever-present
wit is articulated perfectly in her clear-line style, while a
subtle, almost muted color palette complements the true-to-life
nuances of her characterization. "Exit Wounds" made a huge splash
for this signature combination of wit, style, and realism, and "The
Property "will cement Modan's status as one of the foremost
cartoonists working today.
A dark psychological thriller with a killer twist, that has topped
the bestseller charts in its native Israel Winner of the Prix
Mystere de la Critique 2021 Longlisted for the CWA Dagger for Crime
Fiction in Translation 2021 *TRANSLATED BY MAN BOOKER WINNER
JESSICA COHEN* Three tells the stories of three women: Orna, a
divorced single-mother looking for a new relationship; Emilia, a
Latvian immigrant on a spiritual search; and Ella, married and
mother of three, returning to University to write her thesis. All
of them will meet the same man. His name is Gil. He won't tell them
the whole truth about himself - but they don't tell him everything
either. Tense, twisted and surprising, Three is a daring new form
of psychological thriller. It is a declaration of war against the
normalisation of death and violence. Slowly but surely, you see the
danger each woman walks into. What you won't see is the trap being
laid - until it snaps shut.
'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to
hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of
Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work
includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which
he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in
Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world.
Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new
English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one
of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most
important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking
audiences. Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier,
Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The
Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).
Presented bilingually with a new English translation by Man Booker
Prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen, these brief fables by
Israeli author Daniel Oz engage with vast concepts about human
nature. Full of timeless, open-ended parables, Further Up the Path
offers no answers, moralizing, or conclusion: only an uneasy
bewilderment with the paradoxes of the human-and animal-condition.
Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace
and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and
neighbors. In these six essays on politics and culture in Israel,
he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its
leaders and its ideals. The collection includes an already famous
speech concerning the disastrous Second Lebanon War of 2006, the
war that took the life of Grossman's twenty-one-year-old son,
Uri.
Moving, human, clear-sighted, and courageous, touching on
literature and artistic creation as well as politics and
philosophy, these writings are a cri de coeur from "a writer who
has been, for nearly two decades, one of the most original and
talented not only in his own country, but anywhere" ("The New York
Times Book Review").
'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to
hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of
Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work
includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which
he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in
Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world.
Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new
English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one
of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most
important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking
audiences. Plays Two contains the plays Suitcase Packers (1983),
The Lost Women of Troy (1984), The Labour of Life (1989), Walkers
in the Dark (1998) and Requiem (1999).
'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to
hear what he has to say.' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of
Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work
includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which
he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in
Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world.
Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new
English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one
of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most
important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking
audiences. Plays One contains the plays Krum (1975), Schitz (1975),
The Torments of Job (1981), A Winter Funeral (1978), and The Child
Dreams (1993).
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying
drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of
bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It
begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to
his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of
their dead son.The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in
ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all
manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the
Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring
his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and
bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or
memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the
dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such
questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace
and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic
separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous
vitality, and in the gift of Grossman's storytelling - a realm
where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.
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