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Freedom of speech in Israel is so fragile, and this book was attacked as a symbol, for its vulnerability. (2019)

— Dorit Rabinyan

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I shall always write about immigrants, about mobility; about the gap between what you wish for, and what you get.

Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

There is nothing more Arabic than honor and shame.

Literature and War: Conversations with Israeli and Palestinian Writers (2002)

The lighthouse of marriage is only one of a host of glimmering lights.

Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers (2003)

Through all those years Marcelle had confused Yoel with the imaginary heroes that her sad eyes cut out of the romances she read... and she realized that all through the past years she had merely travelled over the road map of the land of love, never in the land itself.

Our Weddings (1999)

Between them she felt small, even smaller than herself. (p13)

Strand of a Thousand Pearls (1999)

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