The Lapid family notes some particularly moving moments. While the chairman of Yesh Atid and the deputy prime minister, Yair Lapid, are about to take up the most senior position in the country – the next prime minister of Israel, his wife of 32 years, Lehi Lapid, also receives particularly happy news.
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The author’s novel “Alienation,” and who would become the prime minister’s wife, was sold to the international publishing house “Harper Collins.” Lapid told Maariv Online: “A really big and exciting achievement, I admit that it is a dream come true.”
According to the agreement, signed by the Israel Institute of Hebrew Literature (formerly the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature), “Zarot” will be published in English in “Harper Via”, a subsidiary of Harper Collins that publishes translated literature from around the world. “Alienation” will be the first Israeli novel chosen to be published in this framework.
Recently, as a result of mergers in the industry, the publishing house received American rights to AB Yehoshua’s books, and it is expected to publish “The Only Daughter” this year. And “Tomb of Sand” by Gittanjali Sherry, the first Indian novel to win the 2022 International Morning Award.
“Alienation,” which was published by Keter about a year ago, is Lapid’s third novel. The novel came out and immediately became a bestseller and won critical acclaim. At the center of the book is an unusual connection between a young girl who ran away from home and an elderly and demented woman from Tel Aviv, who meets her and mistakenly thinks that she is her granddaughter. Lapid weaves an exciting, suspenseful and touching and very Israeli plot, about families seeking correction, about distance and closeness, about a past that never lets up, about the warm connection between strangers who were not supposed to meet – and the unexpected places where love grows.
“I am very excited that my book, which is both personal but also so Israeli, will reach people around the world,” Lapid said. “He will tell our story here, and it is also of course a tremendous achievement for me. It is a book written from my heart, about parent-child bond in this age and our commitment to our family and our family to us. Great joy.”
The book, published by Keter, reads: “Between Pesach and Independence Day, between the big city and the town where everyone knows everyone, Lihi Lapid weaves an exciting, suspenseful and touching plot about families looking for correction, distance and closeness, a past that never lets up, about “The warm connection between strangers who were not supposed to meet – and about the unexpected places where love grows. Strangeness is the third novel by Lihi Lapid, a writer, lecturer and journalist.”
About the book itself, Lapid wrote: “I wrote their story for six years. I wrote most of it at night, in bursts of almost unconscious writing. Almost without a head, only with a heart. Maybe that’s why it is written differently from everything I wrote. Writing that bursts like thoughts at night. It is not always orderly, but it is always full of honesty and truth. ”
“Two foreign women, a young girl and an old woman, meet in a stairwell early in the morning. They need each other. They must,” Lapid added. “Slowly, through a screen of concealment and lies, a strong truth about the need for love and connection is revealed. Right now, precisely after a year of Corona, when the old men suffered relentless loneliness and the young lost their togetherness and were abandoned in front of the screen, it’s a little story about connection. Love. For what matters in life. “