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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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| English | |
TUNNELS
A raucous family comedy, a quest saga with a shocking ending, and a penetrating satire of Israeli culture and society.
In 1987, famed archeologist Yisrael Shebsa thinks he's discovered the burial site of the legendary Ark of the Covenant, containing the original tablets of Moses, and begins digging a tunnel near a Palestinian village to find it, but is forced to abandon the project when the first Palestinian Intifada brings fighting nearby.
Many years later, in 2015, Yisrael's daughter Shebsa decides to look for the site and begin digging again. She hopes to redeem her father's ruined reputation, show up the charlatan who had pushed him out of the university, and win fame and fortune for herself. She finds the site near the Separation Wall, and assembles a motley team to help with the excavation. But as word spreads of her mission, Shebsa begins to lose control of it. Meanwhile, the Palestinians are digging a tunnel of their own right near by, with different goals.
Rutu Modan is the internationally acclaimed author of the graphic novels Exit Wounds (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007) and The Property (Drawn & Quarterly, 2013. Both were winners of the Will Eisner Award for best graphic novel of the year. Modan is a widely published illustrator and children's book author, and a professor at Jerusalem's prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and two children.
Many years later, in 2015, Yisrael's daughter Shebsa decides to look for the site and begin digging again. She hopes to redeem her father's ruined reputation, show up the charlatan who had pushed him out of the university, and win fame and fortune for herself. She finds the site near the Separation Wall, and assembles a motley team to help with the excavation. But as word spreads of her mission, Shebsa begins to lose control of it. Meanwhile, the Palestinians are digging a tunnel of their own right near by, with different goals.
Rutu Modan is the internationally acclaimed author of the graphic novels Exit Wounds (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007) and The Property (Drawn & Quarterly, 2013. Both were winners of the Will Eisner Award for best graphic novel of the year. Modan is a widely published illustrator and children's book author, and a professor at Jerusalem's prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and two children.