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Like her previous publications, Nava Semel's latest novel to be translated into English has the holocaust at its core.

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Nava Semel writes it like she sees it – and like she lives it. To date, 57-year-old Semel has published 17 books and written four plays, many of which address the subject of Israeli identity and how the new Israeli copes with the scars of the past, particularly the horrors of the Holocaust. Considering that she is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, this is only natural.

“My mother was in Auschwitz,” says the award-winning novelist and playwright.
“She was one of the few to leave the camp by the front gate instead of through the chimneys.”

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