About the Book

A young woman spending the summer at the seaside resort town of Eilat discovers the truth about her family, and her childhood, among the Bedouins.

Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. In illustrating the lives of those whose identities swing from fiercely patriotic to powerfully global, The Best Place on Earth explores Israeli history as it illuminates the tenuous connections—forged, frayed and occasionally destroyed—between cultures, between generations and across the gulf of transformation and loss.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443423847
• ISBN 10: 144342384X
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 03/19/2013
• Pages: 25
• List Price:0.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Ayelet Tsabari

Biography

AYELET TSABARI’s debut story collection, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published internationally to great acclaim. Excerpts from The Art of Leaving have won a National Magazine Award, a Western Magazine Award and an Edna Staebler Award. She is the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a graduate of both the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Tsabari teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education.

Other Works by Ayelet Tsabari

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  The Art of Leaving

  By Ayelet Tsabari

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  The Best Place On Earth

  By Ayelet Tsabari

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  Warplanes

  By Ayelet Tsabari