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Meet the Author Evan Fallenberg 10.30am Thursday 8 January 2009 Evan Fallenberg is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, a graduate of Georgetown University and the MFA program in creative writing at Vermont College. He has lived in Israel since 1985, where he writes, translates and teaches. Currently, he is an instructor in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University. Evan is the author of Light Fell, a novel (Soho Press, January 2008) and the translator of works by, among others, Meir Shalev, Alon Hilu, Ron Leshem, and Batya Gur. Light Fell: The sumptuous meal Joseph Licht prepares is in honor of his own fiftieth birthday, Joseph will host his five grown sons and his new daughter-in-law for the entire Sabbath. It is the first time the family will be reunited in twenty years, since the day Joseph left behind his entire life – wife Rebecca, sons, father, the religious moshav where he grew up – in favor of a riveting affair with his soul mate, the genius rabbi of his generation. Their love affair has long since ended, but its echoes reverberate over twenty years and into their lives in ways none of them could have predicted. In this novel of desire and need, of choices and consequences, no one is unaffected. Donation: NIS 20. |
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