Author Archives: Adi Sorek

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Summaries of Adi Sorek’s Books

Posted on 9 בFebruary 2015

Sometimes You Lose People, 2013, Yediot Books Press  The book opens with a novella entitled “Sometimes You Lose People” – about the detached existence of a young woman who longs to find a lost friend and in the process raises … Continue reading →

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The Dance of the Lionfish

Posted on 5 בFebruary 2015

[from Sometimes You Lose People, Yediot Books Press, 2013] A lionfish danced near a quiet beach, on an evening awash with desert-red sunset  twilight, as my mother and I rose heavily out of the deep waters, wearing plastic sandals to protect … Continue reading →

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Snails

Posted on 5 בFebruary 2015

[from Sometimes You Lose People, Yediot Books Press, 2013] On the hill in the field that we found in-between snails grow on outdated brambles, ahead of winter. Beheaded lace thorns wallow like the remainder of a glittering principality. From here the … Continue reading →

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Shadow Boy

Posted on 5 בFebruary 2015

[from Sometimes You Lose People, Yediot Books Press, 2013]                                                                         Don’t cast me out.                                                                         And if you cast me out look at me: for                                                                         I am the most horrific of your horrors                                                                         And the most shot of … Continue reading →

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Galya Rises and Immediately Stands Up

Posted on 5 בFebruary 2015

[a part of Sometimes You Lose People, Yediot Books Press, 2013] Galya rises and immediately stands up and marches straight ahead, as if emerging from a dream into an urgent mission – to push the baby carriage from the corridor … Continue reading →

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Refugee  

Posted on 5 בFebruary 2015

A black woman sits on a bench, on her skirts is a large densely packed notebook in which she writes words fervently, one after the other, under the light of a street lamp. It is night now and I am … Continue reading →

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About this blog

This is the blog of Adi Sorek, a Hebrew writer lives in Tel-Aviv. She is the Writer of three fiction books and one short novella. She is also the editor of Vashti – prose series at Resling Press. She writes in … Continue reading →

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