Name: The Diamond Setter
Start: 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-02-18T14:30:00-05:00
Location: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University

The Diamond Setter

The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at CU

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<DIV CLASS="slot product-about 9781590518915 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened">Inspired by true events, this best-selling Israeli novel traces a complex web of love triangles, homoerotic tensions, and family secrets across generations and borders, illuminating diverse facets of life in the Middle East.<BR><BR>The uneventful life of a jeweler from Tel Aviv changes abruptly in 2011 after Fareed, a handsome young man from Damascus, crosses illegally into Israel and makes his way to the ancient port city of Jaffa in search of his roots. In his pocket is a piece of a famous blue diamond known as “Sabakh.” Intending to return the diamond to its rightful owner, Fareed is soon swept up in Tel Aviv’s vibrant gay scene, and a turbulent protest movement. He falls in love with both an Israeli soldier and his boyfriend–the narrator of this book–and reveals the story of his family’s past: a tale of forbidden love beginning in the 1930s that connects Fareed and the jeweler.<BR> <BR>Following Sabakh’s winding path, <I>The Diamond Setter</I> ties present-day events to a forgotten time before the establishment of the State of Israel divided the region. Moshe Sakal’s poignant mosaic of characters, locales, and cultures encourages us to see the Middle East beyond its violent conflicts.
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<DIV>Hear from author Moshe Sakal as he discusses this "r<SPAN>ichly evocative" novel. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Supported by the generosity of the Appel Family.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="slot product-praise seemoreenable"><HR><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN><STRONG>Moshe Sakal</STRONG> is the author of</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN> five Hebrew novels, including THE DIAMOND SETTER, published in NYC in 2018 (translated by Man Booker Prize winner, Jessica Cohen), the best-selling YOLANDA, which was short-listed for the Sapir Prize and was published in France in 2012, and MY SISTER, which was long-listed in 2016.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>Sakal's novel THE DIAMOND SETTER was named one of TimeOut New York’s “11 Books You Will Want to Binge-Read This Month,” and Entertainment Weekly has called “[An] essential read…[one] of 2018’s biggest titles…a vital depiction of queer life in the Middle East.” </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN CLASS="wixGuard">​</SPAN><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>Moshe Sakal </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>was born in Tel-Aviv into a Syrian-Egyptian Jewish family. He </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>has been awarded the title of Honorary Fellow in Writing by the University of Iowa, the Eshkol Prize for his work, and a Fulbright grant.  </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>Sakal </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN CLASS="color_12"><SPAN>lived six years in Paris, France. He currently lives in Jaffa.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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