Tikva, Shoshan Danielson, Hebrew

“He stepped off the plane and a warm breeze wrapped around him. The heat of the land his mother called ‘the cursed land.'”
Thus begins the journey of a young Swedish man bearing a Hebrew name that had been a source of contention between his parents.

Matan was torn in his childhood between his mother’s deep hatred for Israel and his father’s intense love for this hot land. A mysterious event that occurred in Jerusalem at the turn of the third millennium cemented the rift and cast a long silence around it.

As an adult, Matan sets out to unravel the mystery. He arrives in Israel and begins a journey with no clear thread to follow.

Tikva, who was indirectly involved in that same event, has yearned for thirteen years for the return of the boy who became a young man, and in her longing, she weaves his destiny. Through her steadfastness, she becomes the beating heart of the story—from which and to which the entire plot flows.

A chain of events, seemingly coincidental, is revealed to be a natural progression leading to the mending of wounds and the completion of the picture.

Pages: 215

Cover: Paperback

ISBN: 978-965-7454-85-5