אילנה ברנשטיין
Born 1957 · Israel
Sapir 2025 · Shortlist
Halom olam hafukh
Title translated by AI:“Dream of an Upside-Down World”
Ilana Bernstein · 67 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:An elderly woman, her husband and their clever, chatty dog drive from Tel Aviv to visit their daughter and her family in Denmark. As they travel north, the wife’s fading, broken memory carries the story back to when they fell in love.
Sapir 2022 · Shortlist
Hamato shel Tamuz
Title translated by AI:“The Heat of Tammuz”
Ilana Bernstein · 64 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:On a scorching evening in a small village, wedding guests wait outside while the young bride lies on a sofa in her white dress with her husband-to-be, his twin brother and their father.
Sapir 2019 · Winner
Mahar nisa le-lunah park
Title translated by AI:“Tomorrow We'll Go to the Amusement Park”
Ilana Bernstein · 61 when first published
Novel · 223 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Over a few days of bitter winter, with her life about to slip out of control, a young mother who is almost a child herself decides to take her two small children to an amusement park.