Jonathan Mirsky

The long walk

In this long and fascinating novel, Ora, an early- middle-aged Israeli woman, walks for days through Galilee to escape the ‘Notifiers’, the officers she fears will come to her door to inform her of the death of Ofer, her soldier son, at the hands of Palestinians.

  • To the End of the Land

    David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

    Cape, pp. 576

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