A small village near Jerusalem in the 1980s: a group of boys comes of age. They love music, yearn for freedom and self-realization, yet find themselves confronted with what it means to grow up surrounded by violence. Assaf Gavron, known as a sharp observer of the Middle East conflict, follows the biographies of these friends into the present day in his new novel. Psychologically precise, and with a keen sense of how Israel’s history shapes each of their lives individually.
With Assaf Gavron
Moderated by Jonathan Garfinkel
Read by Anton Weil
In English, with readings in German