מקום אחר ועיר זרה

Written entirely in rhyme, this novel borrows the stanza of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Orit is doing her army service with the education corps in Tel Aviv at the start of the 1990s, and has two jobs: to look after Jay, a Canadian who has immigrated alone and joined up, and to produce a military pamphlet about 'Israeli identity'. The pair set off on a hunt for what Israeliness is, which may also turn into romance, while the book wonders whether anyone can truly move to a new country, and what it costs.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

190 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, early 1990s

First published

2003 by Xargol

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789657120286 (original)