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A Girl
Frankel Alona
First published in 2004 by Mapa, New Edition, February 2012.327 pages, paperback
Alona Frankel, who grew up in Poland during the Second World War, revisits in her first autobiographical novel her difficult childood memories, and does so from the special point of view of the heroine: the young girl who was forced to hide so many times until she became invisible, and continues to hide until today in the woman she grew into.
All about Abigail
Arad Maya
Published March 2021. 412 pages, paperback
Abigail Shalev has just found out that her last book is on the long list of the Sapir Prize. In spite of her success she finds herself deep in a midlife crisis, on a rocky, surprising and amusing path. The tiny cracks in her life are turning into crevices and the firm foundations of her world are gradually falling apart.
Annals Of The Island Of Women
Dagan Hagai
Published January 1999. 238 pages, paperback
An original novel that takes place in present day Jaffa and in the diaries of a brothel that stood opposite the shores of the city since the dawn of history. The historic brothel provides the backdrop for enthralling scenes written in a wonderfully entertaining and convincing erotic prose.
A Ship of Girls
Zamir Michal
Published 2005.191 pages, paperback
She is not yet twenty, a clerk in compulsory military service, one of many on a base crowded with high-ranking male officers. Yet something in the charged atmosphere of the military college has unraveled her. It is an enclosed world where young women soldiers and senior officers become entangled in an intimacy that is both tempting and threatening. Remote, sealed off, full of secrets, it feels like a ship sailing under an illusion of safety — returning two years later carrying women who were once girls.
A Woman
Frankel Alona
Published February 2012. 215 pages, paperback
As a child in Poland during the Second World War, and a strange newcomer to Tel Aviv in the 1950's, Alona Frankel learned to thoroughly examine the world around her, to notice every detail, the terrifyingly cruel one as well as the crazily funny. In "A Woman", the third installment in her autobiographical novels, she continues to look at the hidden corners around her from that sober point of view that deconstructs every clich?, and rebuilds new and magic stories.
Being Ethel
Sharon Meital
Published November 2011. 222 pages, paperback
'Being Ethel' is a love story between two very different young women, Efrat and Yael, which takes place between Tel-Aviv and Berlin. Both women are attracted to Ethel, the perfect Berliner, who makes them examine who they are, how much they can love and what they yearn to become.
Behind the Mountain
Arad Maya
Published September 2016. 327 pages, paperback
Zohar Bar, an English literature teacher in a small college in California, is invited to lecture about crime novels to a group of Israelis who are spending Thanksgiving holiday in a cabin in the Sierra Mountains. As he gets to know the guests he finds himself entangled in past and present mysteries, while the subject of his lectures blurs his judgement. In her 6th novel Maya Arad has written a loving tribute to classical crime literature.
Bon Voyage, Noah
Ziv Noam
Published November 2019. 200 pages, paperback
As soon as the shivaa is over, Noah is boarding a flight to Dharamsala, hoping to escape the bitter memory of his wife's last days and his own guilt. He finds out he is not really up to yoga, the food makes him cry and he keeps asking the wrong questions in buddhism class. A heart-wrenching and hilariously funny journry through mourning and love.
Death of a Monk
Hilu Alon
Published 2004. 250 pages, paperback
The year is 1840, and the setting is Damascus — a vivid, sensual city marked by fear and hatred. After an intimate encounter between the Italian monk Tomasso and Aslan Farhi, a young Jew from a wealthy merchant family, the Jewish community is accused of murdering the monk to use his blood for the Passover ritual. In rich and vibrant language, Alon Hilu weaves a powerful tale of emotional entanglement that spirals into a blood libel — an imaginative and moving retelling of the historical Damascus Affair.
Doll's Eye
Shalom Chetrit Sami
Published May 2007. 205 pages, paperback
An American TV correspondent, born to a Palestinian mother and a Jewish father, is pulled unwillingly into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She becomes entangled in a life-and-death story that tears her apart with no clear way out. This psychological-political thriller is both gripping and penetrating, offering a rare and powerful exploration of the Palestinian perspective in Hebrew literature.
Eleven Stories
Tsalka Dan
Published September 2004. 286 pages, paperback
Dan Tsalka's best stories are collected in 11 Stories, which is one of the most beautiful books in contemporary Hebrew literature, deep and rich in imagination. The stories were written in the course of three decades, appeared for the first time in six different books, and reflect a wide spectrum of literary options, from a romantic legend to sheer realism, from a dark kabbalistic story to a shining ballad.
Essays
Tsalka Dan
Published October 2018. 599 pages, paperback
Dan Tsalka, one of the greatest Hebrew writers passed away in 2005. This is a collection of all his essays - moving from travel writing to meditations about art, music and literature, to thorough examination of old myths to daily life in Tel Aviv all in elegant prose and extreme curiosity.
Fair Exchange
Arad Maya
Published January 2025. 208 pages, paperback
Three novellas, three stories of late reckoning with basic questions of good and evil, inequality and injustice. A talented translator in Tel Aviv, an Israeli couple in California and an Israeli grandmother in Venice, all are going through an experience that finally makes them face an elusive truth.
Falafel Oslo
Ben-David Amir
Published August 2011. 325 pages, paperback
Lennon Lombroso was born in Tiberias just hours after John Lennon was assassinated in New York. His father, a devoted Beatles fan and falafel-stand owner, named him accordingly. Lennon follows his love to Norway and opens his own “Falafel Oslo,” only to find himself unexpectedly at the center of an international legal, political, and emotional entanglement. A fascinating novel that explores fate and identity, peacefulness and human violence.
Family Pictures
Arad Maya
Published January 2008. 263 pages, paperback
Having examined the more amusing and less glittering aspects of academy life in her critically acclaimed best seller, Seven Moral Failings, Maya Arad now turns to a more intimate and sensitive realm - family life. In Family Pictures, a collection of three novellas, Maya Arad proves once again her talent of weaving stories, analyzing sympathetically her heroes' failings and qualities and of doing so in a brilliant, rich and precise language.
Folded
Gelbetz Tamar
Published December 2006. 187 pages, paperback
This is a simple story, the usual. A man leaves his wife, his daughter, his home. Twenty years spent together, and he announces he is leaving. He is not happy with her, indeed very unhappy. She tries to stop him, begging him to stay. She cries and pleads. But to no avail. He rents an apartment and moves out. She is left behind and comes to know herself, learns to live without him, and comes to life.
For Better or Worse
Landesman Nili
Published February 2010. 327 pages, paperback
How does one cope with the sudden death of the love of one's life who had already been lost? What happens when one looks deeply into the common life they shared, which does not exist anymore? And while doing this, how does one cope with the new life, alone? Nili Landesman's prose is bewitching. Her heroes are heartbreaking in their vitality, in their small and large yearnings, and in their weaknesses.
Forte Piano
Kirzner-Appleboim Michal
Published January 2009. 199 pages, paperback
A powerful debut about a family's struggle with a tyrant father who oppresses his wife and children. The four voices - the father himself, the mother, the adolescent daughter and the young son - all add up to a Rashomon style story about fear, music, pain and healing. As befits a novel where music is playing an important role, the writing creates a richly musical composition, sensitive and engulfing.
Fulfillment
Ashkenazy Yiftah
Published January 2014. 381 pages, paperback
This is the story of a group of young Israelis who go on a Kibbutz before their military service in the 1960's.They are members of an ideological left wing youth movement, and the novel follows them through the early 21st century, along with their friendships, loves, wars, and most of all - their diminishing idealism. A brilliantly written portrait of Israeli society.
God Loves Me
Talshir Amos
Published March 2008, 191 pages, paperback
A romantic thriller set against the implosion of the hi-tech bubble in 2000. Dean, a young charismatic entrepreneur, lives largely inside his imagination — the engine behind his startup, an “internet courting technology” meant to turn romance into profit. Constantly hungry and barely sleeping, he walks a thin line between wild creativity and commercial reality. A tale of imagination, confused feelings, arrogance, success and failure — a flowing story that, like its hero, keeps generating new ideas and is driven by an insatiable hunger and a deep need for love.
Graves of Lust
Megged Aharon
Published February 2013. 159 pages, paperback
This is a story about deep love, terrible jealousy and craving for death. Yehonathan Dotan is madly in love with his wife, but an old head injury causes him to experience the past like an endless present, and tears apart his family life.
Happy New Years
Arad Maya
Published January 2023. 356 pages, paperback
Happy New Years is a unique epistolary novel: not an exchange, but a chain of letters written once a year, spreading over 50 years. Beautiful young Leah goes to the U.S. in 1967 to try her luck. Soon she establishes the habit of writing every year, on New Year's eve, a letter to her old friends from the teachers' academy. This is a story about emigration, about growing up, big hopes and deep disappointments, but also a story of the love to live and to write.
Horseshoe and Violin
Bar-Gil Eran
Published March 2005. 254 pages, paperback
Yonni and Danni are identical twins separated soon after birth, until an accidental encounter brings them together again. Eran Bar-Gil weaves a deep and enthralling novel, both breathtaking and sober, touching on fundamental human themes — loneliness, what lies beyond it, and the longing to find one’s own image reflected in another person, in music, in art, in love. Apart from the opening chapter, the story is told in two distinct voices — Yonni and Danni — who narrate different paths that gradually intertwine into a convincing duet.
In Case of Emergency
Triger Zvi
Published January 2005. 206 pages, paperback
Against the backdrop of New York in the last five years, and under the shadow of the World Trade Center’s collapse, Shmuel maps out his intimate disasters. A mysterious bleeding leads to medical tests that reveal the first step in a process of sex change. Lonely and confused in a foreign city, he falls in love with a man who does not return his feelings. Volcanoes erupt, towers collapse, and an ancient gunshot meant to miss still echoes and wounds. In one of the most original books of recent years, Zvi Triger explores the distinction we take for granted between man and woman.
Jews Blues
Alpher Rogel
Published May 2011. 251 pages, paperback
The small State of Israel of the fifties and sixties becomes, in Jews Blue, a kind of magical American fantasy. A sleepy coastal village surrounded by orange orchards becomes the center of an endless war of attrition, with UFOs in the sky and, on the ground, Defense officials, underground rock musicians, small entrepreneurs, and a melancholy film producer trying to create a Tel Aviv version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers — all intertwining in strange and mysterious ways.
Lady of Kazan
Arad Maya
Published March 2015. 511 pages, paperback
Idit is a 39 year old single woman. She knows that if she waits long enough she will find her twin soul, Mr. Right. And indeed, when she is introduced to Michael it seems that the long wait was worth it. But things are never so simple. In Lady of Kazan Maya Arad lays in her masterful prose the story of clashing dreams and shattered hopes which lead to new dreams, while at the same time tackling the big issues of the traditional novel.
Like An Egyptian Movie
Barkai Ron
Published May 2001. 222 pages, paperback
An original autobiographical novel, both riveting and chilling. Its hero, a man of heated passions and convictions, fond of the little pleasures of life, grows up on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria and then becomes, in Israel, a shining example of the Zionist vision, a pioneer steeped both in socialist values and Arabic and Sephardic Judaic wisdom. Nothing in life has prepared him for the devastation that befalls his home.
Morocco: Travel Notes
Tsalka Dan
Published April 2001. 118 pages, available only as Ebook
An author embarks on a journey to the land of his childhood dreams. Three weeks and thousands of kilometres in a small rust-bucket of a car has given birth to a humble, pleasurable, thoughtful, exciting and amusing travel journal.
Mud
Artzi Shiri
Published 2006. 239 pages, paperback
Mud is a somber and penetrating book, combining the visual power of an action film with the sensitivity of words sharp as a knife. Perach and Gidi, the two heroes of Shiri Artzi's first book, go out to have a good time at a club. The fun is suddenly disrupted by a brutal rape that ends in death and leads them along a desperate journey of escape, love and self discovery.
No Geraniums
Nirgad Lia
Published September 2019. 326 pages, paperback Also by Lia Nirgad - Winter in Qalandia
A 55 year old writer and activist rethinks her plan to create a geranium museum and starts writing a diary. She is surprised to realize she is creating another museum - that of her bruised memories and secret thoughts.
Oh Precious Ones
Alpher Rogel
Published April 2008. 189 pages, paperback
A compelling and passionate drama, whose heroes change identities like on a reality show whose heroes were left on the screen without a director or producer. Alpher, in his formidably free writing, with its passion and rage, touches our raw nerves, and it turns out we have quite a few of these.
Persona Non Grata
Ashkenazy Yiftah
Published May 2010. 335 pages, paperback
Is there a mysterious connection between the murder of an art student in Jerusalem in 2006 and the visit of Adolph Eichmann in Israel in 1937? An intelligent, sharp and funny literary work, which goes beyond the boundaries of humor, irony, truth and lies.
Property Sold
Zamir Michal
Published August 2008. 192 Pages, paperback
An old neighborhood of veteran soldiers is the microcosmos of the conflict between the old pioneering elite, condescending and hypocrite, and the new one, which openly venerates power, passion and money. By telling the love affair between a daughter of the founding fathers' generation and a real estate agent, Michal Zamir's new novel unfolds the changes taking place in Israeli society.
Romance with My Ex
Landesman Nili
Published March 2006. 272 pages, paperback
Mira is a stylist of fashion productions, creating glamorous illusions for readers of women magazines, but the composition of her own life is far less elegant. In a combination of irony and softness, sensitivity and self irony, Nili Landesman creates a real and unexpected heroine, examining through her the truth behind the romantic fairytale in a world that has lost its innocence a long time ago.
Romantically Incorrect
Sukari Yossi
Published February 2009. 165 pages, paperback
The bitter and ironic love affair of a Tel Aviv highschool teacher and her student. While the Israeli education system is on the verge of disintegrating, the two lovers reveal themselves, their loneliness, naivety, confusion and lies, all of which make their encounter so disturbing and electrifying.
Screenplaying
Shavit-Pinhasy Anat
Published February 2016. 294 pages, paperback
Daria is a screenplay writer and Ran is a TV producer. They are both happily married, but not to each other. Daria is working for Ran as a production assistant and uses his help to write the screenplay she is working on. The sudden love that take over their lives scares them both in its potential destructiveness.
Seven Moral Failings
Arad Maya
Published 2006. 391 pages, paperback
Four candidates vie for a prestigious position in a leading university. One is thorough, but slow, the second brilliant but arrogant, the third pleasant but lacks confidence, and the fourth assumes she knows all. Who will manage to outdo the others and obtain the position? Seven Moral Failings, Maya Arad's first novel in prose, is a modern comedy of morals, witty and brilliant, full of surprises and sharp irony.
Shanti Shanti Balagan - Israeli Journey in India
Shezaf Tsur
Published 2004. 220 pages, paperback
In early September 2001, Dorit and Tsur Shezaf took their three daughters (14, 11 and 8) on a year-long family journey through India, with no school and no work. They discover a land that is complex, colorful and intoxicating — from Amritsar to Kochi, from Mahabalipuram to Kolkata, and from Varanasi to a short trek around the Annapurna that almost costs them their lives. Shanti Shanti Balagan is a book about Israelis in India, one Israeli family in India, and an India that embraces them all.
Short Story Master
Arad Maya
Published November 2009. 453 pages, paperback
Adam Tehar-Zahav is known as the Short Story Master. He is still a famous writer, but his readership has shrunk, his love life is stuck, and worst of all — short stories are no longer in fashion. Maya Arad’s new novel is an intricate and absorbing work of fiction, as well as a brilliant play of a book within a book. She weaves several of Tehar-Zahav’s stories into the narrative, hinting at his attempts to find love and build a family, while offering an ironic view of contemporary Hebrew literature and its true and false heroes.
Song Of Tahira
Or Amir
Published January 2001. 200 pages, paperback
An Israeli poet invents, in an amazingly beautiful poetic prose, an archaic epic of a people that never were. Gods, and people, kings and heroes, swirl under the great wings of fate in a whirlpool of desires and love, an adventure of bravery and power struggles. An enthralling plot full of inspiration and flight.
Susana, Don't You Cry - Eighteen Days in the American South
Ben-Ami Yuval
Published December 2005. 165 pages, paperback
Eighteen days in the hallucinatory south of the United States. A few months before hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans a young Israeli journalist travels by train, bus, cars, hitchhiking and on foot, to discover what is called the 'true heart' of America, the land of Oh Susana and Georgia on my Mind. A surprising travel diary of the other America, a far cry from the American dream.
Suspected Dementia
Arad Maya
Published August 2011. 338 pages, paperback
When Ruti and Giora were young lovers they promised each other that if old age drastically deteriorates one of them, they will help each other to put an end to his or her life. Fifty years later Ruti fears that the time has come to fulfill this promise. Where will the terrible suspicion in her husband lead her? Maya Arad's fourth novel, deeper than ever, film noir interchanging with dark, sharp comedy, is a fascinating page turner.
Tel Aviv Underground
Barkai Ron
Published November 2010. 252 pages, paperback
This is one of the happiest mornings in archaeologist Meir Holtzman’s life: he rides the Tel Aviv metro to submit the manuscript of his new book, the story of a crusader castle in the occupied West Bank. The ride opens an abyss of horrendous and wonderful memories, all centered on a young woman — not always the same one — in a red jacket. Is her elusive identity tied to a romantic, erotic, domestic, or political complication in his past? Any answer could be true.
Teen Years
Frankel Alona
Published August 2009. 266 pages, paperback
The novel Teen Years starts from the point Alona Frankel's first novel, A Girl, left off. The heroine arrives with her family from Poland to Israel on the last day of 1949, at the age of 12, and discovers a new world, no less strange, ridiculous or complicated than the world she left behind. A story of immigration and coming of age, surprising and full of humour, as well as an extraordinary portrait of Israel in the 1950's, with all its beauty and ugliness.
The Burning Deer
Lapid Haim
Published April 2007. 266 pages, paperback
An electrifying psychological thriller. Eran Hefetz, a successful man in his prime, discovers that his memory is betraying him. Armed with his sharp logic and obssessive resolution he starts on a journey following the "black holes" which opened up in his consciousness, and the secrets swallowed in them. At the end of the journey he will face a tough choice: give up the solution of the riddle, or his sanity.
The Dead and the Very Much Alive
Gelbetz Tamar
Published May 2012. 203 pages, paperback
Her father died a long time ago. Her mother is dying. And she is next. As simple as that. Tamar Gelbetz' third novel deals with large existential issues: sex, life, passion and fear of dying. As always she delves into the minutest details, the terrifying and funny little things that make the human existence.
The Drive
Assulin Yair
Published January 2011.102 pages, paperback
This the voyage of a young Israeli soldier, accompanied by his father, to meet a military psychiatrist. In his mature prose, Yair Assulin penetrates the torn world of the hero, whose voyage is not just that of a young religious soldier facing a crucial dilemma, but a tour of the soul and depth of Israeli society.
The Edge of the Globe
Luski Rama
Published May 2008. 152 pages, paperback
A touching and surprising debut, combining delicate writing with powerful emotion and deep tension. The four chapters of The Edge of the Globe follow the same person in different stations of her life: a young girl goes with her parents on a long stay in Africa, a young woman follows her musician husband to a frozen north American town and a mother in Tel Aviv tries to protect her children from the growing violence surrounding them.
The Happy Man
Shezaf Tsur
Published November 2007. 167 pages, paperback
A politically charged novel which tells the fictional, but not impossible, story of the Bedouin rebellion in the Negev desert. It is the story of extraordinary people, who find themselves caught in a game of life and death but are determined to realize their dreams, while they fight over the desert. At the same time it is a story of the desert - of the endless generosity of nature, the mute and powerful witness of the human hopes, loves, despair and emptiness.
The Hebrew Teacher
Arad Maya
Published February 2018. 244 pages, paperback
Ilana, Miriam and Efrat are three women who emigrated, or whose children emigrated, to the U.S. They find themselves in a crisis and decide to take an extreme step to overcome it. This is a book about distances - between man and wife, parents and children, between an israeli childhood and american adulthood and between the old Israel and the present one.
The History of Art - A Novel
Waxman Yossi
Published May 2015. 284 pages, paperback
In the middle of the 20th century a group of artists settled in a deserted arab village on Mount Carmel. Over the years they built a museum and galleries, created art and rebuilt the village. More than fifty years later Yedidya and Shlomi were forced to leave their house in this artist community because of the terrible fire on Mount Carmel, and became temporary refugees. The forces of nature made them reexamine the story of the community, and the country itself.
The Israeli Dream
Arad Roy
Published May 2010. 278 pages, paperback
In his novel, The Israeli Dream, and in the accompanying stories, Roy Arad points the Hebrew literature in a new direction - funnier, wilder, more social and more serious, and encourages the faith in its power to offer an original view of the Israeli reality.
The King Has No House
Dagan Hagai
Published Nobember 2005. 344 pages, paperback
Many readers may see Hagai Dagan’s The King Has No House as a Jewish, intelligent Israeli counterpart to The Da Vinci Code, but one must read it to grasp how profound the difference is. Instead of a chain of riddles about art and Christianity, Dagan uses fragments of hints, ancient Hebrew enigmas, and both imagined and genuine Jewish texts to create an alternative Jewish myth that speaks directly to present-day Israel.
The Land is Sailing
Dagan Hagai
Published September 2007. 185 pages, paperback
Yearnings for a high-school love mingle with a longing for the lost youth of this country — its landscape and poetry — as Elad makes his way to his kibbutz class reunion. But the reunion, which begins on a hopeful note, ends with an earthquake that tears the land from the Syro-African fault and sends it on a mysterious sail. A surprising novel, a sweet love story that turns into a powerful apocalyptic tale.
The Last One
Gelbetz Tamar
Published March 2023. 203 pages, paperback
This is the novel Tamar Gelbetz finished writing just before she died, knowing full well it is the last one."A story about a woman carried away by too much love, too much illness... that is the story: a great love and death or almost".
The Old Man Lost his Mind
Mishmari Avivit
Published May 2013. 191 pages, paperback
On one winter night, in an imaginary future, the Old Man, a veteran politician who woke up from his coma, makes a historic speech, in which he calls on Israel's secular citizens to rebel against the religious who keep persecuting them. In the ensuing mayhem Israeli society quickly collapses into its bleeding fault lines.
The Pelican
Arad Roy
238 pages, paperback. Published August 2013
Arad's new book takes place in a sinking African tyranny, and tells the absurd and hopeless story of the leader of the local Underground. While running away from the authorities, the hero is joined by a pelican, and together they go through strange and fantastic adventures. A powerful and humorous political allegory.
The Pioneers
Landesman Nili
Published May 2024. 236 pages, paperback
A historical novel about the women pioneers and the birth of a nation through the story of Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, who was not only an active member of the labor movement but also a pioneer in the struggle for recognition in women's role in that movement.
The Sound of Pain
Riklin Shimon
Published August 2004. 222 pages, paperback
Each of the heroes in the three novellas of The Sound of Pain possesses a special sensitivity that can, under certain circumstances, become crippling. They react with unexpected intensity to the overwhelming sensuality of their world: they fall apart, collapse inward, sometimes disappear — until the narrative finds them again and restores the life they lost. But their childhood, the innocence that exposed them to the world’s violence, cannot be reclaimed. In his first book, Riklin turns this clash between sensibility and pain into a thrilling and unsettling drama.
The Spot of Light
Nirnblat Leon
Published August 2008. 256 pages, paperback
A young boy is attracted to a mysterious shining spot of light on the gray wall of the health clinic. As he tries to solve the riddle, to figure out the connection between magic and logic, reality and imagination, he falls in love with the ice queen of his class and faces a crisis between his parents. Leon Nirnblat's new novel is a touching quest for love and meaning, an enchanting book for readers of all ages.
The Ten Days of Awe
Megged Aharon
Published May 2010. 164 pages, paperback
Juda Harkavi, a historian of ancient Middle Eastern civilizations, discovers that the Canaanite letters he recorded have vanished and sets out to search for them in Jerusalem. Along the way he confronts other losses, especially the disappearance of his Circassian wife, Osnat. His journey through Jerusalem in the ten days leading to the Yom Kippur War crosses time and civilizations, creating a breathtaking weave of narratives and identities.
The Things Themselves
Assulin Yair
Published January 2014. 192 pages, paperback
Yair Asulin's second novel is the story of two boys and a girl, teen-agers in a small town, involved in real and imaginary romances, struggling with their religious beliefs and their rebellious fantasies, torm between passion and fear.Their story is the story of the tension between religion and secularity in Israeli society.
The Wife of the Lost Pilot
Shezaf Tsur
Published mars 2011. 245 pages, paperback
This is the story, told in two echoing voices, of an Israeli pilot shot down in Lebanon and of his wife who remains alone. Will he be rescued by the all-knowing commando unit? Will his wife ever find an answer to the question tormenting her for years? Or can a person discover a new kind of freedom as a hidden refugee only miles from where he was born? A fast-paced novel that weaves a touching love story with breathtaking suspense.
The Woman Who Loved Stories
Barkai Ron
Published December 2003. 254 pages, paperback
Passionario is a historian of the Spanish Civil War — and a man of women. They fill his life, dreams, and memories, and guide his fate, yet only one has a decisive role: the woman who loves stories. The stories he gathers for her gradually take over his life until he is placed in an asylum. Only there does he manage to loosen the knot of his existence, separate the threads of his story, and rediscover the fragile crossings between reality and imagination, political anger and the passion for life, madness and sanity.
Thirty Months of Love
Sembira Gali
Published May 2005. 157 pages available only as EBook
Thirty months before her thirtieth birthday, Gali meets Shani and begins a journey that leads her somewhere both very close and very far — to herself: beyond the prison of physical touch, beyond the box. Coming out of the closet becomes only one step in a deeper process in which she learns to touch, feel, know herself, and love without masks. Thirty Months of Love follows this path through two parallel timelines — past and present, life inside the box and the open spaces outside — revealing its full meaning in the movement between them.
Thousand Hearts
Tsalka Dan
Published June 2008. 762 pages, paperback
A celebration for Hebrew literature lovers! Dan Tsalka's masterpiece, "Thousand Hearts", is published now in a newly edited version. In this epic novel, which starts in 1919, with the voyage of the Rousselan - a Zionist version of the Mayflower - from Odessa to Jaffa, Tsalka marvellously weaves the story of the Israeli immigrant society.
Top of the World
Ben-David Amir
Published March 2009. 300 pages, paperback
Astronomer Leon Kam, "an extremely moderate man", goes on his roof every night to watch the stars. When one night he is tempted to aim his telescope at the apartment across the street, he sees there a shining galaxy of local stars, among them a beautiful woman in a red dress, and he loses his bearings. Armed with the fantastic power of love, he sets out to settle the open accounts of his life.
Tsalka`s ABC
Tsalka Dan
Published September 2003. 184 pages, paperback
This is a personal book of events and people, arranged alphabetically, drawn from the chequered life of a great Israeli writer. An apparently arbitrary order that forswears the pretension of an autobiography, and offers instead a jigsaw puzzle hinting at a self portrait, enigmatic and riveting. The book won the 2004 Sapir Prize.
Two Short Stories & Autobiographical Notes
Mendele Mokher Sfarim
Published December 2013. 165 pages, paperback
A small annotated anthology of Hebrew writings by Mendelek Mokher Sfarim (S.Y. Abramovitsh). The book includes the stories Beseter Ra'am (Thunder in the Secret Place), Shem veYefet Ba'agala (Compartment in the Train) and a short autobiography of Abramovitsh, Le'toldotai (Sketches of my Biography).
Under The Line Of Pleasure
Dagan Hagai
Published June 2001. 184 pages, paperback
In Tel-Aviv, a lively and self-celebrating city, a city of beautiful people and virtual deals cut over espressos, lives one, Gershon, who becomes religiously and thoughtfully addicted to the decline, the great surrender, the final defeat. Gershon is but one of the lost and crazed heroes of perhaps the funniest novel ever written in Hebrew.
Under the Sign of the Lotus
Tsalka Dan
Published July 2002. 408 pages, paperback
Yanai Valdman — a rare blend of peripheral politician and daring artist for whom history is a creative arena — and Yotam Ninio, a gifted linguist expelled from university who becomes a junkie and an informer for the Israeli General Security Services, attempt to take an alleged descendant of the House of David and make him King of Israel. The novel is lucid and deep, multi-layered and sharply plotted, amazingly funny and almost magical — a heart-breaking love song to a disintegrating society and its cracked dreams.
When Time is Cracked and the Trees Cry
Megged Nahum
Published December 2004. 317 pages, paperback
An Israeli anthropologist escapes the country and the memories that haunt him, seeking refuge in the Amazonian jungle with an isolated Indian tribe. As he becomes part of the tribe, he is drawn into its magical world — behind every tree and inside every sacred cave he encounters secrets, relics of vanished civilizations, riddles and signs. He realizes he has a role in the struggle between the forest people and the supposedly rational civilization closing in. This novel weaves myth and magic with a powerful literary imagination.
Wild North
Riklin Shimon
Published February 2007. 284 pages, paperback
Lt.-Col. Ichele, who is having fun by putting Lebanon on fire, has a weakness for military clerks. Having lost his favourite clerk in an absolutely unnecessary operation, he sets on a remorseless journey of vengence, recruiting private Jacob Zilberstein to help him. In the wild north of the first Lebanon War private Zilberstein, the perfect military clerk, turns into the glorious hero of a breathtaking novel, which interweaves delicate realism with crazy humour reminiscent of Catch 22 and mediterranean fantasy.
Written on the Sea
Moskovits-Weiss Ela
Published April 2009. 227 pages, paperback
The heroine of Moskovits-Weiss new novel is a shy, stuttering librarian, who turns into a detective, when she sets out to investigate the tragic death of her glamorous older sister. What starts as a family drama engenders a mystery beyond the borderlines of the inidividual and the family, while the larger story of Tel Aviv in the 1950 is described so touchingly and magically.
You Ask, God Replies
Yedlin Noa and Batia Kolton (Illustrator)
Published 2005. 135 pages
An insolent book, daring and original. Everything we wanted to know, and not only did not dare to ask, but had no one to ask. For the first time God answers questions put to him over the years, and does so in a surprisingly witty style, revealing a bit of how His mind works.
You Love Me
Bernheimer Avner
Published December 2005. 203 pages, paperback
They are a married couple who never got married, both of them men, and their married life is very similar to the life we all know - with its emotions, sadness and joy, frustrations and above all the moments of laughter. An enticing combination of romanticism and humor. Obligatory reading for all those who appreciate the risibility, madness and beauty of married life.
You're Doing Fine
Gelbetz Tamar
Published May 2004. 219 pages, paperback
She is doing fine. Or maybe not. She has a husband, a daughter, a job, a cancer that struck her and still lurks every six months in the CT scan, and a psychologist who helps her navigate the anxieties that define her days. And then it happens: the psychologist leaves for Switzerland to care for his sick wife, and at work they let her go. The void fills with letters that will never be sent — addressed to the absent psychologist — and turns into a shaking, absorbing and unexpectedly funny diary-novel, offering a kind of X-ray, a CT rather, of one of the most touching heroines in contemporary Hebrew prose.
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