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March 13, 2015

At Last, a Novelist of Everyday Israel

And not of the Yehoshua Oz-David Grossman school of national soul-searching.

The Israeli novelist Irit Linur has translated books by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens into Hebrew, and crafted a TV mini-series based on Pride & Prejudice. She also famously canceled her subscription to Haaretz in an open letter blasting its “radical leftism” and “anti-Zionism . . . often turned into malevolent and stupid journalism.” Her own novels, although sometimes set to the backdrop of war, avoid the issues of politics and identity so often associated with Israeli literature. Noga Emanuel writes:

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