The Falafel King Is Dead

Members of an Israeli family cope with new threats and old losses in a novel "remarkable for the vividness of the five individual voices" (The Times).

The town has lost its famed falafel king, but the Dadon family have also lost a father and husband. Living with the daily threat of Katyusha missiles from neighboring Lebanon, and struggling to survive amid the rubble of their lives, Simona and her three children each find their own way of coping with their grief, their fear, and their hop...