Sondra Silverston
2) Waking lions
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim's wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.
3) The liar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection. His people twitch with life." -- Scotsman In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest...
5) Homesick
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amir and his girlfriend Noa decide to move in together, choosing a tiny apartment in a village that was forcibly emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1948, and encounter a complex web of neighbors in the racially-charged region.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Israeli author reflects on her life as a child of the kibbutz movement and evaluates how this communal structure came into being as well as the social gaps it left in the children who were raised in kibbutzim.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life"--
9) Fly already
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.... The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.
On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how...
On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how...