David Grossman

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...

"Novel about 3 generations of women. They travel to the penal island Goli Utok, off the coast of Croatia, where, decades ago, the grandmother and oldest of the three women, was imprisoned for refusing to betray her dead husband and declare him "the enemy of the people." --

Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up in a dive in a small Israeli city. In the audience are some whom Dov knew as a boy, an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir: we meet his mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative...

Someone to run with, is an adventure story that take place in the side alleys of Jerusalem and narrates about a young boy trying to follow the footsteps of a young girl.