In this moving and tender tale of a young girl living in the shadow of the Holocaust, Aharon Appelfeld weaves an individual's unique story. Tzili was the youngest, least favored member of a large Jew
Gur spins an intriguing mystery with international flavor and an attractive and likeable hero. When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief I
Fourth in a series of popular, intellectually challenging mysteries from acclaimed Israeli author Batya Gur, Murder Duet features once again the smart, charming, and lonely police officer Michael Oha
In Gur's third mystery, clever, charming Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon, whom readers fell in love with in Saturday Morning Murder and Literary Murder, must once again put his skills to work to s
Things could be going better in Ilan's life. His book on astrophysics is months overdue. One of his female students at the Institute is stalking him. His bumbling colleagues want him to weigh in on th
Inspector Michael Ohayon of the Jerusalem police must deal with profound ethical questions when he investigates the murder of a celebrated poet and professor of literature at the Hebrew University
A rising star of international letters, Zeruya Shalev takes us on a compelling narrative journey in the exquisite and unsettling Husband and Wife. Na'ama and Udi Newman have many of the trappings of a
Emil, the unwanted child of two young parents, is adopted by Yoel and Leah, a childless couple. Yet, as the years pass, it becomes clear that Emil doesn’t bear much resemblance to the parents who’ve l
The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and mee
In a novel about the Holocaust, a hotel called "The Retreat" teaches its Jewish patrons how to look, talk, and act like Gentiles, but as the Nazi danger marches closer, the opportunities for assimilat
The hilarious second novelfrom actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as the verynotion of “chick lit.”
Yaara's feelings for an older man, her father's childhood friend, causes great difficulties for her when their passionate affair begins to affect everything and everyone connected to her. Reprint.
From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to talk about Adolf Hitler in today's world.Elinor's com
It is spring 1939 in the age of anxiety. In months Europe will be Hitler's. And Badenheim, a resort town vaguely in the orbit of Vienna, is preparing for its summer season. The vacationers arrive as t
Gruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly City is widelyrecognized as one of the most disconcerting—andbrilliant—literary works ever to come out of Israel.
Journeying to India to retrieve his superior's seriously ill daughter, gifted physician Benjy falls deeply in love with his superior's wife, a situation that becomes complicated when he himself become
When her archeologist father died, Loya Kaplan left Israel seemingly for good, severing all ties to her past. Twenty-five years later, she’s a flight attendant without friends or family, happiest in t
Living with her aging mother in Tel Aviv, thirty-three-year-old Susannah's world is turned upside down with the arrival of her handsome cousin from America.
“I read the book with wonder and emotion. The love between Michaela and Rivi is depicted precisely and delicately. . . . It’s beautiful.”—Amos Oz“More than anything else, the book is a temple of love
