BOOKS 2024 #כתר

Janice doesn't really remember how she started collecting stories. Maybe it happened when she looked out the window of the bus towards a window of a house, or when she heard a fragment of a conversation while cleaning the sink. Today the stories come to her naturally.

The year is 1983 and Itzik Shturman is a flight attendant who lands in New York and finds himself wandering the streets of the big city. What did he ask for? To take off as far as possible from the suffocating Israel of those years, and to be freed from the trauma of the Lebanon War and the suffocating embrace of his mother.

A historical novel that combines a touching love story with a tense historical drama. It is based on the true and extraordinary story of Nancy Wake, one of the most decorated women of World War II, a hero who risked her life many times to help the war effort and saved countless people from death.

Anna Winter was left alone. Her husband and older children are no longer alive. Her young children left her and Germany. On November 9, 1938, she was walking alone in the empty rooms of the family villa in Königsberg, until the ringing of the telephone broke the silence; Thugs set fire to the synagogue, and the flames reached the nearby Jewish orphanage and drove the children away.