{"product_id":"9781939931054","title":"Some Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWords without Borders Best Books of 2013, Coffin Factory Best Books of 2013, and World Literature Today Best Books of 2013.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ardent, salty, whimsical, steamy, absurd . . . A wallop to the reader.\"—\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautiful ... reading the book feels like going back in time .\"—Yael Stone, actor in \u003ci\u003eOrange is the New Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Since I was little, I have thrilled at reading food-related passages in novels. But the food scenes in \u003ci\u003eSome Day\u003c\/i\u003e by Israeli novelist Shemi Zarhin are on another level. In one passage, Zarhin describes a dish so vividly I felt compelled to re-create it in my own kitchen … My mouth watered.\"—Leah Koenig in \u003ci\u003eModern Jewish Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Extremely moving.\"—\u003ci\u003eMiami Sun Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zarhin has added his name to the luminaries of Israeli literature.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Arts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This thrilling, fresh, and surprising novel ought to draw the eyes of the literati back to Israel.\"—\u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful . . . haunting . . . sublime . . . Zarhin's characters are so real they fairly jump off the page.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping family saga. Shemi Zarhin's hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel's larger national story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShemi Zarhin\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Tiberias in 1961, is a novelist, film director, and screenwriter who has created some of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning films in the history of Israeli cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ginger Myrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040478118128,"sku":"9781939931054","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939931054_p0.jpg?v=1763666522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939931054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}