Exploring Israel: 17 Authors to Check OutLike this list

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• Scenes From Village Life

  Oz, Amos

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  Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. And where has the mayor's wife gone, her note saying "Don't worry about me"?

• My Wild Garden

  Notes From a Writer's Eden

  Shalev, Meir,

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  On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel Mountains rising up to the west, author Meir Shalev has a large garden, "neither neatly organized nor well-kept."

• Central Station

  Tidhar, Lavie

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  Boris Chong returns from Mars to the Tel Aviv space station to find a child who can tap into minds with the touch of a finger, his father suffering from a mind-plague, and a data-vampire hunting him.

• Homesick

  a Novel

  Nevo, Eshkol

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  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.

• My Promised Land

  the Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

  Shavit, Ari,

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  As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive?

• Open Closed Open

  Poems

  Amichai, Yehuda

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  One of Israel's most highly regarded poets, Yehuda Amichai was noted for his innovative combination of the language of prayer and colloquial Hebrew. Open Closed Open, his final collection, won the 2001 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

• Native

  Dispatches From An Israeli-Palestinian Life

  Qashu, Sayed, 1975-

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  A collection of interrelated essays by the Arab-Israeli satirical columnist captures the nuances of everyday family life in early 2000s Jerusalem.

• Falling Out of Time

  Grossman, David

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  Announcing that he must embark on a journey in search of his dead son, a man walks in ever-widening circles around his town and beyond, picking up similarly bereaved companions along the way.

• Songs for the Brokenhearted

  a Novel

  Tsabari, Ayelet, 1973-

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  When Zohara's sister calls to tell her their mother, a Yemeni immigrant in Israel, has died, she gets on a plane with no return ticket. Soon Zohara finds herself on an unexpected path that leads to shocking truths about her family.

• The Tunnel

  Yehoshua, Abraham B.,

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  A family must cope with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father—an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project.

• Love

  Eitan, Maayan, 1986-

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  Libby goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and befriending other sex workers and pimps, but as she pursues love, it continually eludes her.

• Waking Lions

  Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet, 1982-

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  Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has it all until he's involved in a late-night hit-and-run. When the victim's widow shows up at Eitan's door and reveals that she knows what happened, her silence has a price that will upend his comfortable life.

• Tunnels

  Modan, Rutu,

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  In this satirical graphic novel, a race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the international antiquity trade.

• The Seven Good Years

  a Memoir

  Keret, Etgar, 1967-

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  Award-winning short story author Keret ventures into nonfiction in this memoir-in-essays about the seven years between the birth of his son and the death of his father.

• Only Yesterday

  Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970

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  Published in 1945, Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya.

• Love Life

  Shaleṿ, Tseruyah

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  Shalev's best-selling debut novel is a bold and visceral depiction of a young married woman's impassioned affair with an older man.

• Sapiens

  a Brief History of Humankind

  Harari, Yuval N.,

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  One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?