The Hilltop

Mordantly funny and deeply moving, this award-winning novel about life in a West Bank settlement has been hailed as “brilliant” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “The Great Israeli Novel [in which] Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel’s Jonathan Franzen” ( Tablet ). On a rocky hilltop stands Ma’aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. According to government records it doesn’t exist; according to the military it must be defended. On this contested land, Othni