A haunting love story between a young Israeli translator and a Palestinian painter
Dorit Rabinyan is bestselling author of the acclaimed Persian Brides and Strand of a Thousand Pearls. She is the recipient of the Itzhak Vinner Prize, The Prime Minister's Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Award. This book was named one of the ten best books of the year by Ha'aretz newspaper.
A touching, raw and gorgeous love story with an ending which
snatched the air from my lungs.
*Stylist*
A fine, subtle and disturbing study of the ways in which public
events encroach upon the private lives of those who attempt to live
and love in peace with each other, and, impossibly, with a riven
and irreconcilable world.
*John Banville*
Enthralls and delights ... Rabinyan beautifully loops the story
from season to season, depicting Liat and Hilmi's lives and love
vividly and memorably.
*Publishers Weekly*
I stand with Dorit Rabinyan. Love, not hate, will save us. Hatred
sows hatred, but love can break down barriers.
*Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature*
Even the (asymmetrical) tragedy of the two peoples does not
overwhelm this precise and elegant love story, drawn with the
finest of lines ... Astonishing
*Amos Oz*
Rabinyan is a generous writer who puts her characters first...
Rabinyan's writing reflects the honesty and modesty of a true
artisan. She is meticulous, to be sure, but at the same time she
doesn't appear to be straining, and this is what sets someone like
her apart from those who merely practice the craft of writing.
*Ha’aretz*
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