WHEN THE MUSIC DIED

Inoville was only a fly-over town in Karmandin, a fly-over country in Western Europe, until 26 June 1984. That day, a boy arrived and wrote in the files of each resident the exact date of their passing. Since then Inoville has been known as “the town whose people know the day they die.” A few years after the boy's visit, on her eighteenth birthday, Dora Mater opened her personal file, and since then her entire life, her plans, her loves, have been overturned by the startling news that she discovered. In THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED, Ofir Touché Gafla's inventive, witty and multi-layered novel, a young woman refuses to let death preoccupy her life, in a city where all the other inhabitants have let the knowledge of death overwhelm them. In Dora Mater's unique voice, this is a touching, intimate and richly entertaining tale of self-discovery in a fictional world suffused by music. The book is accompanied by a website playlist that enables the reader to experience the story simultaneously through words and music. Ofir Touché Gafla, the author of five novels, is Israel's finest writer of fantasy and science fiction. THE WORLD OF THE END received the 2005 Geffen Award for best sci-fi-fantasy book of the year and the Kugel Award for Hebrew Literature in 2006. His books have become cult novels both locally and internationally. Touché teaches creative writing in the Sam Spiegel School of TV and Cinema in Jerusalem.