Blogs in March 2023

Three Floors Up 13th March 2023

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...

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The Bastard Factory 19th December 2022

Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv....

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Mother of Strangers 3rd August 2022

Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love … darkly humorous and touching . . .” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine...

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Mazel Tov 21st May 2020

When 20-year-old student J.S. Margot took a tutoring job, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family’s Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules – ‘never come on a Friday, never shake...

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The Attack 16th February 2020

Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafie, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a nearby hospital. Respected and admired by his colleagues, the doctor represents integration at its...

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