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Liora Kerem taught high school for years and now lives on her own in retirement, until the day she waits by the roadside with a gun and fires at Israel's top general. The novel asks what led her there: a political conviction, a wish to be seen, or private grief. Its answer is pieced together across four decades, starting in 1967, when her husband Miki took a bullet to the head in the Six-Day War, and reaching the summer of 2006 and the Second Lebanon War, when her resolve hardens. Seen through a woman's eyes, the story questions the cult of manhood and force at the core of Israeli life, as its people watch the ideals they grew up with slip away.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

369 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, 1967–2006

First published

2013 by Am Oved

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789651324291 (original)