BOOKS 2025 #persimmon

A dark and grotesque story, a panopticon that reveals the flashes of the stories we live in. A novel about the painful chapters in the history of Central Europe after World War II. A story about collective guilt and personal responsibility, and about the fragile boundary between good and evil.

A journey between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv of a young man, Daniel, with a fondness for soft drugs, humor, and freedom. He moves between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall, between the Geula neighborhood and the Mahane Yehuda Market, between Rothschild Boulevard and the Neve Sha'anan pedestrian street, between a demonstration and a meeting room, between a party by the sea and facing the sunset and encounters with police officers with their faces covered, and in the process, he presents a vivid picture of Israeliness filled with a sense of justice, self-pride, clichés, and neuroses.

Four women, all unhappy in their own way, in England in the 1920s, the days between the two world wars, decide to rent a medieval castle in Italy for a month in April. The four of them undergo a month of purification thanks to the magical effects of the paradise they have arrived in, as Lottie insists, who is the spiritual figure who will lead them all to a change that is all about love.

A fascinating literary document that describes the relationship that develops between a person dying of a terminal illness and those close to him - the terrible anxiety over the death of the patient himself and those around him, where a sick person becomes nothing more than a body - about the loss of privacy and insult.

A pair of lovers, Emma and Franz, look out into the night from a bridge. Is their fate sealed there? A fascinating psychological journey into the hidden thoughts of a woman who betrays her husband and is forced to confront his penetrating gaze in a moment of crisis. This is the first prose text in which Schnitzler used the innovative writing style of an interior monologue.

A woman meets a man. He is clumsy, lost, useless, childish, and once the lead singer of a rock band that was a star for a moment. Now both of them, the woman and the man, are condemned to hang out together at night on the streets, on the beach, in shopping malls, in sex clubs, and in train stations, and all these arenas become the setting for their theatrical experience.