BOOKS 2023 #Aryeh Nir

'Bitter Sun' is a deep and touching novel about immigration and price, about three generations who seek to pave their own path in a chaotic reality, through loves, disappointments, solidarity and alienation.

Twenty-six-year-old Nella Rogers is tired of being the only black assistant editor at the prestigious Wagner publishing house. When Hazel May joins the office in a parallel role, Nela is happy. But then Nela discovers that the other black girl is winning everyone's hearts, while she becomes invisible...

An intelligent, sensitive and nuanced novel about immigration and returning home, about self-searching, and about the disastrous consequences of running away from the reality of our lives. In exciting, moving and funny writing, Norton designs captivating characters and weaves a story about human nature and his choices.

Is it possible to prevent a murder that has already happened? It's already after midnight, and Jen is waiting for Todd, her eighteen-year-old son, to return from a night out. When she looks out the window, she sees him - her smart, funny, sensitive son - stabbing a man to death. He is taken into custody without explanation, and when she goes to bed that night, she knows his future is lost.

The book describes the search for the ultimate theory, and all the twists and turns in this chapter in the history of physics. The technological revolutions, starting with the Newtonian revolution, through the electromagnetic theory, the theory of relativity and the quantum theory, and ending with today's string theory.

When Dani Cohen, a successful New York lawyer, is asked in the most important job interview of her career "Where do you see yourself in five years?" She knows exactly what to answer.