A policewoman who lost her memory in the 1980s, and perhaps it's a good thing, a 19th-century French dandy, and a biblical shepherd, dressed in armor and wearing a turban. Yoav Avni's new novel moves delicately and sophisticatedly from the static high-tech office to the dizzying life of the city, and it has mystery and tension, imagination and reality, and unexpected love - long-standing and new.
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