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Death of a Monk
מות הנזיר · Mot ha-nazir
Alon Hilu · 32 when first published
Novel · 307 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Damascus, 1840: a stormy night-time meeting between an Italian monk and the teenage son of a wealthy Jewish merchant family ends in a death, and the city's Jews are accused of killing the monk for his blood.