Description
Survivors of the Yom Kippur war unable to return to the life they knew before drifting into the Sinai Desert, beach, and Bedouin settlements, ancient temples, poppy and cannabis fields. Here of all places, in this nightmarish and fragmented world, with the shadow of war hanging over it, a gentle and touching love story is woven between a naive soldier and a mysterious young girl. With tense restraint, using non-judgemental language clean from emotional flourishes, sketched with fine lines, Shezaf creates a believable weave whose transparency is not at the expense of its depth and richness.