Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Tel Aviv in 1960 to parents originally from Egypt. After studying film at the Beit Zvi Institute and Tel Aviv University, she published her first collection of stories in 1987 and has been a leading voice in Hebrew literature ever since.
Todd Hasak-Lowy is a writer and Professor of creative writing and literature at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
Orly Castel-Bloom is a leading voice in Hebrew literature today
*White Review*
Castel-Bloom layers the heartbreaking and the grotesque and the
intolerably mundane and the nearly mythological and the maddening
and the transcendantly joyous and all the other emotions that make
families work into a novel made up of short stories that sacrifices
the factual truth for the much more meaningful ecstatic one.
*Tablet Magazine*
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