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  • When We Danced on Water

    A Novel

    by Evan Fallenberg ...
    A conversation between a Tel Aviv waitress and her elderly customer sparks a journey of healing in this compelling novel by the author of Light Fell.At eighty-four, Teo, one of the world's most influential choreographers, is ready to withdraw from the bombast and romance surrounding his long and illustrious career. But then he meets Vivi, a waitress at a Tel Aviv café, and the slumbering passions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner

    A Family Memoir

    by Meir Shalev ...
    Translated by Evan Fallenberg ...
    From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Parting Gift

    A Novel

    by Evan Fallenberg ...
    A “feverish and hypnotic” LGBTQ novel, combining the intoxicating atmosphere of Israel’s Mediterranean coast with the mounting dread of Patricia Highsmith and the eroticism of Edmund White (Shelf Awareness).“An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love’s underside . . . hits hard and never lets up.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your NameAn unnamed narrator writes a letter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Petty Business

    by Yirmi Pinkus ...
    Translated by Evan Fallenberg, Yardenne Greenspan ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has fallen on hard times with a failing perfumery business. Soon, more and more relatives join in on the trip, and the expenses quickly begin to add up. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beaufort

    A Novel

    by Ron Leshem ...
    Translated by Evan Fallenberg ...
    By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem’s debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel’s top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film. Charged with brilliance and daring, hypnotic in its intensity, Beaufort is at once a searing coming-of-age story and a novel for our times—one of the most powerful, visceral portraits of the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Light Fell

    by Evan Fallenberg ...
    Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction, the first and most enduring award for GLBT books, sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table.Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life—his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up—when he fell in love with a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Two

    Suitcase Packers; The Lost Women of Troy; The Labour of Life; Walkers in the Dark; Requiem

    by Hanoch Levin ...
    Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg, Naaman Tammuz ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays Three

    The Thin Soldier; Bachelors and Bachelorettes; Everyone Wants to Live; The Constant Mourner; The Lamenters

    by Hanoch Levin ...
    Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg, Naaman Tammuz ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Hanoch Levin: Selected Plays One

    Krum; Schitz; The Torments of Job; A Winter Funeral; The Child Dreams

    by Hanoch Levin ...
    Translated by Jessica Cohen, Evan Fallenberg, Naaman Tammuz ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Parting Gift, The

    by Evan Fallenberg ...
    Narrated by Seth Podowitz ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    This erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge is suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating scents of Israel’s Mediterranean coast.An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, with whom he has been staying since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    A Novel

    by Tomasz Jedrowski ...
    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR • A DUA LIPA BOOK CLUB PICK“Imagine Call Me By Your Name set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart.” — O, The Oprah Magazine“Captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying depths. Tomasz Jedrowski is a remarkable writer.” — Justin Torres, ... Read more

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  • A Guide for the Perplexed

    A Novel

    by Dara Horn ...
    "[An] intense, multilayered story." —Jami Attenberg, New York Times Book ReviewSoftware prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her—leaving her jealous sister Judith ... Read more

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