Lit in Translation

מה קרה להגר באילת?

Mah karah le-Hagar be-Elat?

“What Happened to Hagar in Eilat?” (title translated by AI)

Ofra Offer Oren (עופרה עופר אורן, born 1951)

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Hagar grows up in a brutal, suffocating home and runs from it straight into the brutality of the world outside; the episode in Eilat is just one link in a chain of betrayal, coercion and people choosing not to see. Written as 336 sonnets that add up to a full novel, the book traces a life that begins with abuse within the family and continues on a cruel, strange path, the trauma of one woman standing for that of many.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
363 pages in the original
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Israel
First published
2023 by Kinneret Zmora-Dvir
Author's age
72 when first published
ISBN

9789655745481 (original)

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