Description

A strong and remarkable tale of strategies, family, future, and love set from the background of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Following on the heels of the critically-acclaimed Ten-Thousand Lovers (finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award) and Appear for Me, A Wall of Light tells the tale of three decades of the Tel-Aviv household. Meet Anna, whose enthusiastic words to your lover she left behind in Spain explain the activities of Israel's post-war immigrants; her son, Noah, who in his journal files his uncertain sexual identity and his idealism in the facial skin of the tense political environment; and lastly, Anna's daughter, Sonya, who takes us through one important day in August, a day which she "kissed students, attacked a lover, discovered her father, and left her buddy."