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Alona Kimchi arrived in Israel from
Russia when she was six years old. An actress of stage and screen, as well
as an acclaimed author, Alona's newest work of fiction, Lunar Eclipse
is a collection of short stories.
"A young Russian immigrant suffers
her stepfather's compulsions. A Tel Aviv journalist infects his lover with
AIDS. An intelligent young woman relates her journey from Berlin to Ireland
to an Israeli psychiatric hospital. A successful fashion photographer works
between self-destructive bouts of bulimia. Each of the stories astounds you
in its own particular way, exposing another kind of unhappiness or misery,
yet they all have the added quality of acute, venomous humour and superb verbal
brutality."
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