Dorit Rabinyan, Author , trans. from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan. Random $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-375-50811-0
Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller Persian Brides)
maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, she knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather
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Dorit Rabinyan. Random House, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-50829-5
Bernstein Prize winner Rabinyan’s modern take on forbidden love between young dreamers on opposite sides of a bitter cultural conflict enthralls and delights. Liat, an Israeli Fulbright scholar studying in New York City, has a chance meeting one...
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Dorit Rabinyan, Author, Yael Lotan, Translator George Braziller $22.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1430-3
It may be true, as Tolstoy wrote, that all happy families resemble one another, but it would be next to impossible to find a family anything like the Ratoryans, the 19th-century Jewish clan engagingly depicted in this first novel--or a writer who...
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