BOOKS 2026 #ישראל המאירי

The dreary routine of a couple in their home on a moshav in northern Israel – just before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic – is shrouded in a layer of darkness and mystery, which is gradually revealed through their preoccupation with the oppressive past. The abysses of life and the life of the soul are revealed through flashes of the past, flashbacks and detours that allow us to understand the present.

Yaki is a veteran biology teacher on a sabbatical, spending part of his academic training in a writing workshop. His wife Noa, a nurse by profession, is busy traveling south, to a rehabilitation village in the Negev, and trying to direct the fate of the boy Gal – who remained there as a result of the upheavals in the life of his father Ido, her husband’s son from a previous marriage – so that she can win him over.