“Disarmingly tender and feverishly sad, Gardel’s love story is a delirium of a novel that reminds its readers of an uncomfortable truth: that even a life of regret can be a beautiful one.”
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Patrick Nathan, author of Some Hell
“The reader is gripped from the very first moment … For readers who have never encountered Matalon, this very fast novel is an extremely accessible place to start, and an opportunity to begin to understand both Matalon’s literary stature and the complexities of contemporary Israel.”
Aviya Kushner, author of The Grammar of God in The Forward