Someone to Run With

Asaf, sixteen, shy and clumsy, is pulled out of his routine and handed a hopeless errand: find out whose large, unruly dog has been picked up roaming Jerusalem. The dog sets the pace, leading him through the city to people and places from which, piece by piece, he assembles the story of Tamar, a solitary, stormy girl entangled in a perilous underworld who resists it bravely. Tamar has a bold, almost crazy plan to save someone, and Asaf, astonished and enchanted, finds himself running with her before he has even met her. The fairy tale of the sleeping princess and the rescuing prince echoes through the book, but here the roles are reversed.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

341 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2000 by Hakibbutz Hameuchad

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9780747562078 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9780374266578 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9780747568124 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9780312421946 (Picador, United States)

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