Further Up the Path

She shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman for her translation of A Horse Walks Into a Bar.

About the Translator

and everyone at BOA Editions, and to Keter Publishing House for their kind permission to reprint the Hebrew.

come to gather the newly ripened azure delicacies

One day the wind was kind and whispered to me with the distant chirping of a flock of birds. I ran quickly toward the blue pear tree that stood out on the horizon, and as I got closer I saw that it was surrounded by the birds, who had

So I traveled to the distant land and wandered its prairies until it seemed I had trod upon every single blade of grass down to the very last one

This legend aroused great hunger in me, as well as the recognition that I would not be sated until I could taste the fruit.

On my travels I heard tell of the blue pear, a small azure fruit that grows on an ancient and singular tree on the outskirts of an expansive, barren plateau in a distant land.

The Blue Pear

The Tale of an Author
I am writing the tale of an author who himself is writing a tale. He does not know if he will have time, but he hopes to finish his work before I do, for if I complete my story about him while he is still writing, his story will never be done.