Shimon Adaf

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  Sapir 2021 · Shortlist

  הלשון נושלה

  Ha-lashon nushlah

  Shimon Adaf · 49 when first published

  Novel · 595 pages · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:In the town of Mevo Yam, an eleven-year-old boy is drawn by his friends into the secrets of an overgrown garden around an abandoned mental-health clinic next to his mother's house.

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  Sapir 2017 · Shortlist

  Take Up and Read

  קום קרא · Kum kera

  Shimon Adaf · 45 when first published

  Novel · 688 pages · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Fourteen years after detective Elish Ben Zaken failed to solve the disappearance of a girl from Sderot in the summer of 2014, the unsolved case still weighs on his niece and nephew in a much-changed Israel.

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  Sapir 2012 · ★ Winner

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  Moks noks

  Shimon Adaf · 39 when first published

  Novel · 255 pages · Coming of age, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A narrator recalls a teenage summer job at a kibbutz plant, where he suspected the lonely secretary of an affair with his father, while in the present he is drawn into a relationship with an older woman.