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Ofir Touché Gafla

אופיר טושה גפלה

Born 1968 · Israel

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    במחילה מכבודה של אשת המערות

    Bi-mehilah mi-kevodah shel eshet ha-me'arot

    Title translated by AI:“With All Due Respect to the Cave Woman”

    Ofir Touché Gafla · 57 when first published

    Novella · 217 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Danny was fourteen and a half when his father, a schoolteacher, disappeared. Years later a psychiatric institution in London calls to report the father’s death, and Danny and his mother fly to England, where a notebook he left behind awaits them.