Books set in Israel (90)


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81.

The Teacher by Michal Ben-Naftali EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
Based on true events, the story of a Holocaust survivor who spent her life trying to disappear.

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The Zig Zag Kid by David Grossman EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
The picaresque adventures of Annon Feuerberg, 12, an Israeli policeman's son kidnaped by his father's arch-enemy, a master thief. The thief takes Annon on a number of jobs and introduces him to beauty in the person of a young actress.

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Three Floors Up : A Novel by Eshkol Nevo EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
THE BASIS FOR THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL'S PALMA D'OR-NOMINATED FILM 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 crisis. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriag... continue

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To the End of the Land by David Grossman EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
Ora is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from Israeli army service when he voluntarily rejoins his unit for a major offensive. In a fit of magical thinking, she takes off to hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the notifiers who might darken her door.


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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom by Maya Wind EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research ... continue

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Tres pisos by Eshkol Nevo ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
En las afueras de Tel Aviv, un edificio de tres plantas, con dos departamentos en cada una. Escucharemos, sucesivamente, el monólogo de uno de los moradores de cada uno de los pisos, y podremos observar el aislamiento en que viven respecto a sus vecinos, que aparecen mencionados al pasar en cada monólogo, y como podremos ver, con con frecuencia con impresiones bastante erróneas. La historia de cada uno es muy interesante, y nos tiene en vilo respecto a cómo terminará. Los personajes están muy bien construidos, y las situaciones que viven, muy humanas... continue

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Unholy Land

Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning, has turned up dead in his hotel room. A state security officer has now identified Tirosh as a suspect in a string of murders. A rogue agent is stalki... continue

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Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Sondra Silverston EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
A neurosurgeon runs an illegal immigrant over in his car. There are no witnesses, and the man will die in any case-so why endanger his career and report the accident? But the next day, the victim's wife knocks on the doctor's door and makes him an offer which will completely derail his well-ordered life. How would we have acted in the same situation? This question hovers over this compelling and timely novel by an award-winning author, which masterfully explores the boundary between love and hate, guilt and forgiveness, good and evil.

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Zealot : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most eni... continue