All welcome Thursday, February 19 at 7 p.m. in CLA 1.302D for a reading by Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron. Gavron will be reading from his 2014 novel, The Hilltop, which explores the lives of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Hailed as “the great Israeli novel” by Time Out Tel Aviv, The Hilltop has won acclaim from both sides of the political spectrum.

Praise for The Hilltop:
“Brilliantly attuned to the madhouse complexities of the current settlement crisis. . . . The superbly orchestrated chaos that results makes this an indispensable novel of, as one character dubs it, the ‘Wild West Bank.’” (Wall Street Journal)
“Expansive, humorous . . . Gavron’s satiric touches can be coruscating . . .” (The New Yorker)
“[A] brilliant book . . .” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Assaf Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel’s Jonathan Franzen . . . Gavron writes realistic fiction with a comic edge that aims to take the temperature of his whole society, to tell us how Israelis live now . . . a cutting satire.” (Adam Kirsch Tablet)
The reading is free and open to the public, with no RSVP required.