בוריס זיידמן
Born 1963 · Israel
Sapir 2021 · Shortlist
Tahanot benayim
Title translated by AI:“Stations in Between”
Boris Zaidman · 57 when first published
Novel · 409 pages · Migration, Crime
AI-generated summary:After three years in Lebanon, a discharged soldier guards a desert airfield on the Egyptian border to pay for a trip back to the snowy city of his childhood in the crumbling Soviet Union.
Sapir 2008 · Shortlist
Hemingway ve-geshem ha-tsiporim ha-metot
Title translated by AI:“Hemingway and the Rain of Dead Birds”
Boris Zaidman · 43 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Migration, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A prickly young Tel Avivian and the seven-year-old Soviet boy he once was, waiting alone for the Germans to come for him as they came for his grandfather, live side by side in two worlds that never meet.