Five fascinating books you may have missed in 2021 - Walla! Lottery in culture

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The intriguing work of Iyad Barghouti, the story of the 19-year-old detective, the fourth book in the detective series Avraham Avraham and the first book by Einat Bedi, which moves on the border between drama and a love story

Five fascinating books you may have missed in 2021

5 books that may have slipped under your radar (and a pity)

In collaboration with Mifal Hapayis

26/12/2021

Sunday, 26 December 2021, 16:09 Updated: Wednesday, 29 December 2021, 07:56

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Quite a few successful Israeli books were published in 2021. Some were more successful and became bestsellers, and some, no less successful, went under the radar.

Just before the year comes to an end, we have compiled for you five great books that have come out in the past year and you may have missed.

Jealousy of writers / Maya Arad (Grasshopper)

After the great success with "Seven Bad Virtues", "The Artist of the Short Story", "Miss Makzan" and "The Hebrew Teacher", Maya Arad published her ninth book, "Jealousy of Writers", which tells about his Abigail , Who from a young age dreamed of becoming a successful writer.

She fulfilled her dream, but something was missing, and slowly Abigail's life changes from end to end.

As in her previous books, "Jealousy of Writers" is also characterized by accurate and accurate writing.

"In" Jealousy of Writers, "Arad is not only attentive to the feelings and impressions of her readers and in the process argues with them, rebels against them and often even justifies it," we told Haaretz.

"She integrates her readers, their reading and their interpretation as counterpoints that are included within the novel."

"Maya Arad integrates her readers, their reading and interpretation as contraptions that are included in the novel" (Photo: Mira Mammon)

The story of Aka'i / Iyad Barghouti (Pardes) The

city of Aka rejoiced and rejoiced at the appointment of Fayez Endor as the first football coach of the Palestinian national team, as the man from the city instantly became a national hero.

A glorious future awaited Gendor, but just then dark secrets were revealed, threatening to devour all the cards.

Iyad Barghouti's book was published as part of a letter series - the only project in the country dedicated to translating works from Arab culture and literature.

"The story paints the period and life of Palestinian Arab society in Israel in the 1930s and 1940s," Barghouti explained to Walla.

"I wrote the book out of a difficulty I experienced as an Arab, living in a place he does not know its history. The story shows that there is a way to produce meaning, even where his memory is almost extinct."

For an article from "Lottery in Culture"

"The story shows that there is a way to produce meaning."

Aka'i Story (Photo: Screenshot, Screenshot)

The Witch's Feast / Einat Bedi (Crown)

"'The Witch's' Holiday, Einat Bedi's meager debut novel, is an unusual work in the local literary landscape, and its anomalies have an exciting and even mesmerizing character. Although it evoked ambivalent feelings in me, I could not put the book down , Omri Herzog, Haaretz.

Einat Bedi's first book moves on the border between drama and a love story, and tells, among other things, about the difficulties in the married life of a couple who comes to Italy and never wants to leave it, despite the many risks and difficulties involved.

This is a story about a new life accompanied by ups and downs, poverty and exploitation that you really should not miss.

Einat Bedi's first book.

Witch's Holiday (Photo: Crown)

Cold missing persons / Assaf Kugler (with an employee)

Unlike her other friends, 19-year-old Shira, a graduate of an ulpana, decides to enlist in the army and insists on serving away from home in Jerusalem, in the cold missing persons department - a special department that re-investigates unsolved missing persons files.

Between files, in the soldiers' hostel where she lives, Shira embarks on a journey outside the studio, and on the way discovers a world she did not know before.

"The book is charming and captivating, and functions well as our official document of acquaintance with poetry and the wonderful world (to an extent) that will be revealed to her when she leaves her parents' warm nest in Be'er Sheva," complimented Yaron Fried in Maariv for the book, which is nominated for the Sapphire Prize.

For the full review in Maariv

"The book is charming and captivating."

Assaf Kugler (Photo: Eric Sultan)

Faith / Dror Mishani (Ahuzat Beit)

"Dror Mishani constructs in his book" Faith "an impressive portrait of people and places of occurrence, but precisely out of such meticulous realism that a serious and poignant discussion develops between the lines on all the" great existential questions ", Udi Ben Saadia," Walla ".

" Faith ", the fourth book in the Detective Avraham Avraham series nominated for the Sapir Prize, also deals with Rabbi Peked Avraham Avraham, the Holon police investigator, who this time faces two complicated investigations. Avraham Avraham's journey includes intriguing encounters and even a visit to Paris. faced with the moral question hanging over his head: "What is the right thing to do?". his books of the writer Dror Mishaani won numerous awards and important world and processed television and cinema.

full review on the book site Walla

Impressive portrait of people and places of occurrence.

Faith (Photo: Ahuzat Beit)

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