Auteur: Jessica Cohen

What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what works and what doesn’tin fighting globa …

Tyler and I were goofing around one day and decided to make a cute story together. Mostly, he was the brains behind the story, I just added the ending. We have been through several versions of what t …

A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her …

This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand …

Presented bilingually with a new English translation by Man Booker Prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen, these brief fables by Israeli author Daniel Oz engage with vast concepts about human nature. …

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A major, internationally bestselling novel of extraordinary power about the costs of war from one of Israel’s greatest writers.Set in Israel in recent times, this epic yet intimate novel places side …

Following Grossman’s widely acclaimed novel To the End of the Land, a national bestseller and Globe and Mail Best Book, this is a fable of parental grief — a powerfully distilled exploration of unde …

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A chance encounter in New York brings two strangers together: Liat is an idealistic translation student, Hilmi a talented young painter. Together they explore the city, share fantasies, jokes and hom …

Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tor …

‘Absorbing and moving … wonderful’ Daily Mail’This pair of dramatic novellas are tough fictions, elegant and near virtuoso in the exactness of the sensuous, physical prose but relentless in their p …

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the ‘notifiers’ wh …

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama – part play, part prose, pure poetry – to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begi …

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apar …

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don’t worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You’re a rich, lonely man and you want t …

This acclaimed debut novel takes readers inside the mind of a young and deeply conflicted Israeli soldier: “Israel’s own The Catcher in the Rye”(The Los Angeles Review of Books …

A dark psychological thriller with a killer twist, that has topped the bestseller charts in its native Israel*TRANSLATED BY MAN BOOKER WINNER JESSICA COHEN*Three tells the stories of three women: Orn …

Three seemingly disparate women in Israel are united by a troubling secret in this psychological thriller.When Orna meets Gil on an online dating site, their lackluster affair seems like nothing more …

The Property is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight readers and critics alike. Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Rutu Modan’s second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of sto …

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Both investigations began on the same day. One seemed domestic, almost banal: a newborn is found in a bag outside a hospital and the woman who left it there is captured after a few hours. The second …

‘A writer contends with slavery’s legacy, and his own link to it . . . Daring in both scope and imagination.’ —The New York Times A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative …

‘Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights.’ — Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR HEBREW FICTION IN TR …

‘Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage… we badly need to hear what he has to say.’ David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel’s leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes …

‘Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage… we badly need to hear what he has to say.’ David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel’s leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes …

‘Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage… we badly need to hear what he has to say.’ David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel’s leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes …

Orion, a boy who lost his father in the Six-Day War, is raised by two women in Jerusalem’s Old Katamon neighborhood. His journey is marked by the Holocaust’s lingering wounds, the pain of his mother’ …