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On the Golan Heights the winter is bitter and foggy. Duba is a big, glowering, defiant soldier who keeps being moved from one base to another, and who feels she has lost the light inside her that made life worth living. That light belongs to the late 1980s and the small town of her teens, where she fell under the spell of Alex Seleznik, a famous physicist's son who obeyed nobody and meant to outwit nature itself with a perpetual-motion machine. Haunted by him, she clashes with Guy Harel, a keen young officer newly posted to her shabby base, who sets out, unwisely for himself, to reform her. Her search takes her far away, eventually to the north of Italy, looking for a peculiar girl prodigy in physics who might explain everything. Whether the elusive Alex or the earnest officer can help her believe in herself again is the question the novel pursues.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

340 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, Italy

First published

2004 by Keter

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789650713201 (original)