One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset

“Engaging … Emotional insights and flashbacks to Elish’s youth are sinuously written and movingly translated in lyrical prose, and Adaf ably ties up the plot’s tangled complications. More than a mystery, this is a dark and yearning portrayal of Tel Aviv and the southern cities. Readers will eagerly turn to the next two installments.” –Publishers Weekly

“Shimon Adaf is my literary hero, a fearless explorer with the endless curiosity of a child and the skill of an Old Master, combined to unleash strange and wonderful masterpieces on the world. In his Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured.” –Lavie Tidhar, author of By Force Alone

Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, Israel, and now lives in Holon. A poet, novelist, and musician, Adaf worked for several years as a literary editor at Keter Publishing House, and has also been a writer-in-residence at Iowa University. He leads the creative writing program and lectures on Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Adaf received the Yehuda Amichai prize for Hebrew poetry (2009) for the collection Aviva-No, translated by Yael Segalovitz; the Sapir Prize (2013) for the novel Mox Nox, which won the 2020 Jewish National Book Award for new Israeli fiction for the translation by Philip Simpson; and the Newman Prize for Hebrew Literature (2017).

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