Stockholm

Eight days before the Nobel Prize in economics is announced, its likeliest winner, Avishai Sher-Shalom, is discovered lifeless one evening, his heart having apparently given out. The old friends who come upon him begin to plan a burial, until one floats an outrageous scheme: conceal the death so that the candidacy survives. Over the following week the novel tracks the five of them, four alive and one not: Yehuda, who has known him since boyhood and dreams of greatness; Zohara, a hired writer of family memoirs and his occasional mistress; Amos, an accomplished economist himself; and Nili, a retired children's doctor with little patience. As the plan unfolds, their private reasons come out, and so do the rivalries and affections of a lifetime.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

415 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2016 by Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789655663167 (original)

9780063310810 (HarperVia, United States)

9780063310803 (HarperVia, United States)

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