The protagonist has Egyptian roots going back many generations: on her father’s side, to the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492 when seven brothers of the Kastil family, from Castilla, landed on t
A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna's Lamentation of Christ
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
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
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.”
Netanya is a fascinating blend ofreminiscence, fiction, and amateur science, seeking to convey not only apersonal story but the big picture in which the saga of life on Earth and ofthe stars that surr
The Death of Lysanda collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel’s greatest poets. In the title piece, we meet Naphtali Noi, a recently divorced proofreader, critic, and “creative” taxidermist, giv
Susan Sontag writes: “Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel GarciI?a MaI?rquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.&l
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. The genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating different corners of the world and spreading through the use of various cultural media.
