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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526607898 | ISBN 10: 1526607891
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWA ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910422410 | ISBN 10: 191042241x
Malka Sabbatto is a young woman who flees the confines of her traditional family in Jerusalem, followed by Moshe, a Russian immigrant and her father's top student. After falling in with a sinister cult in Safed she escapes to Jaffa, where she starts ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784701956 | ISBN 10: 1784701955
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017  Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade – since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide.  Shmuel – a young, idealistic student – has abandoned his ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099541363 | ISBN 10: 009954136x
A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. A ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781859643297 | ISBN 10: 1859643299
Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid struggles with the knowledge that he can do nothing to save his friends and family. Living on occupied land, his entire village operates in constant fear of losing t ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546740 | ISBN 10: 0099546744
From one of the world's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life – the greatest human drama – and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from Isra ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697266 | ISBN 10: 1906697264
Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour from life's tragedies, Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist is a classic of Arab literature. Saeed's, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847398611 | ISBN 10: 1847398618
Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781558615755 | ISBN 10: 155861575x
An Israeli girl's diaries addressed to Anne Frank evoke a poigant, explosive love affair with her female literature teacher. Best-selling, internationally recognized Israeli novelist Judith Katzir evokes an artist's coming-of-age during the ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747581352 | ISBN 10: 0747581355
These two novellas concern love. In Frenzy, Shaul is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He feverishly imagines her, in every painful detail, with her lover. Esther has never seen the human side of her aloof brother-in-law, but during a nig ... more
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