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Naomi Gal, visiting instructor of foreign languages and literatures, will talk about her newest book, Daphne’s Seasons, in a radio interview 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, on WDIY (FM 88.1). She will also have a book signing 2 p.m. Saturday, July 28, at Borders Books at the Whitehall Mall.
The novel, which was released in February, focuses on the various stages of grief. It is about an Israeli woman who loses her husband in a suicide bomb attack. She moves to rural Pennsylvania where grief plays out against her first experience of four seasons.
Gal has authored 15 books in Hebrew, but Daphne’s Seasons is her first novel in English. She has translated and edited more than 100 various fiction and non-fiction works from English and French to Hebrew, including autobiographies and biographies of Itzhak Rabin, Raymonda Tawil, Anatoly Sharansky, and Nancy Regan. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for Literature for her novel Soap Opera in 1994, and her screenplay The Sisters was awarded the Warner Brothers Prize.