BORDERLIFE (Gader Haya)

Dorit Rabinyan, author of the acclaimed PERSIAN BRIDES and STRAND OF A THOUSAND PEARLS returns in BORDERLIFE with a momentous novel, sensitive in its details and enthralling at its peaks.

What begins in the cold of early New York winter ends on a Jaffa beach at summer's blinding peak. A chance encounter brings two strangers together: Liat, an Israeli from Tel Aviv, and Hilmi, a Palestinian born in Hebron. For one frozen winter away from home, on snowy streets, filled with longing for a Middle Eastern sun, Liat and Hilmi demarcate the place reserved only for them, an intimate short-term place, a universe for two. At the fissures and margins of things, in corners and in gaps, the reality lurking in Israel peers and snarls at them. The story, with its twists and passions, follows them even when they each go their own way Liat returning to Tel Aviv and Hilmi to the village of Jifna, north of Ramallah refusing to end. Dorit Rabinyan, author of the acclaimed PERSIAN BRIDES and STRAND OF A THOUSAND PEARLS returns in BORDERLIFE with a momentous novel, sensitive in its details and enthralling at its peaks. She tells a story crisscrossed by blades of physical and emotional border lines and courageously marks the deceit in the separation between you and I, between us and them. The protagonists of BORDERLIFE are endowed with compellingly real and heartbreaking lives. Bestseller in Israel since appearance in June 2014 Dorit Rabinyan was born in Kfar Saba in 1972 to a Persian-Jewish family. She is the author of three novels, the first of which, PERSIAN BRIDES, was published when she was 22. Rabinyan's television script, Shuli's Fiance, won the Israeli Academy Award for the best drama of 1997. She has been awarded the Yitzhak Vinner Prize (1996) and The Jewish Wingate Quarterly Award (1999). Rabinyan has also hosted a weekly television magazine dealing with current Israeli culture and publishes a weekly column in Ha'aretz