Some Day - Paperback

by Shemi Zarhin (Author), Yardenne Greenspan (Translator)

On the shores of Israel's Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias, a place bursting with sexuality and longing for love. The air is saturated with smells of cooking and passion. Young Shlomi, who develops a remarkable culinary talent, has fallen for Ella, the strange neighbor with suicidal tendencies; his little brother Hilik obsessively collects words in a notebook. In the wild, selfish but magical grown-up world that swirls around them, a mother with a poet's soul mourns the deaths of literary giants while her handsome husband cheats on her both at home and abroad. Some Day is a gripping family saga. Shemi Zarhin's hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel's larger national story.

Author Biography

Shemi Zarhin is a novelist, film director and screenwriter who has created some of the most critically-acclaimed and award-winning films in contemporary Israeli cinema. Some Day is his first novel and was a best-seller in Israel.

Yardenne Greenspan is a fiction writer and translator and holds an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. A recipient of the American Literary Translators Association Fellowship, her translation projects include works by Israeli authors Rana Werbin and Yaakov Shabtai.