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A follow up to her National Jewish Book Award-winning debut novel, in the aftermath of the breakup of her marriage, a once famous actress of the Yiddish theater travels to Tel-Aviv to revisit the apartment she once shared with her husband Soon after, she finds herself at the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition Hospice in Jaffa, a sanitorium, run by a group of nuns. Unclear as to how she got there, she begins to piece together the events that led her to this moment. From New York to Tel -Aviv, and the Siberian gulag, The World Between explores the landscape of a marriage, friendship, loss, and the way childhood war trauma bleeds into every aspect of the characters' lives.

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""Zeeva Bukai’s The World Between gives us the long life of an actress in the fading world of Yiddish theatre.  From a wartime childhood in a Siberian camp, to a tempestuous marriage in post-war New York, to sorrow and decline in later Israel, an unforgettable character leads us through a page-turner of a story with history at its heart. Joan Silber, author of Improvement and Secrets of Happiness. 

""Zeeva Bukai’s The World Between gives us the long life of an actress in the fading world of Yiddish theatre.  From a wartime childhood in a Siberian camp, to a tempestuous marriage in post-war New York, to sorrow and decline in later Israel, an unforgettable character leads us through a page-turner of a story with history at its heart.""— Joan Silber, author of Improvement and Secrets of Happiness.  “Zeeva Bukai's stunning novel takes place nischt ahn, nischt aher, where memory and damage conjoin and there are no solutions. Bukai's luminous prose heals even as it wounds, and I was utterly entranced by her wisdom and masterful approach to trauma. The World Between should be required reading for anyone seeking understanding of the Holocaust, survival, and the profound impact of both.”—Erika Krouse, author of Save Me, Stranger ""The World Between is fragile. It's mysterious. It's wonderfully written. Zeeva Bukai has created characters who breathe with weighty, tragic experience.""—Max Gross, author of The Lost Shtetl, 

""Bukai’s lyrical prose shines again in her newest work, The World Between, [a] story that. . . evokes tensions between spouses, homelands and shifting times.”—Hadassah Magazine ""Powerful sensory images. A brief beguiling plunge into a woman's consciousness.""—Kirkus Reviews ""Zeeva Bukai’s The World Between gives us the long life of an actress in the fading world of Yiddish theatre.  From a wartime childhood in a Siberian camp, to a tempestuous marriage in post-war New York, to sorrow and decline in later Israel, an unforgettable character leads us through a page-turner of a story with history at its heart.""— Joan Silber, author of Improvement and Secrets of Happiness. ""Bukai deliv­ers as splen­did an orches­tra­tion of life as one might usu­al­ly antic­i­pate from a much longer nov­el, so filled is it with notes of long­ing, melan­choly, bit­ter­ness, resound­ing love, and fleet­ing joys. The author has said that the dev­as­tat­ing sense of loss after her mother’s death inspired her to write a kind of homage, and it is hard to imag­ine moth­ers and daugh­ters — or indeed any read­er, not cel­e­brat­ing the result. And this is a con­sis­tent­ly evoca­tive work; the var­i­ous eras the nar­ra­tor revis­its are vivid­ly, lov­ing­ly curat­ed, illu­mi­nat­ed with a gen­uine sense of authen­tic­i­ty. The World Between is a shat­ter­ing, heart­felt, and exu­ber­ant achievement.""—Jewish Book Council ""The World Between is a beautiful rendition of life as art, and art as life, in the portrait of one woman's struggles through what has been called the Century of Wars, but should be called the century of suffering. 'Fiction is art,' John Cheever said, 'and Art is the triumph over chaos, no less.' This book is a triumph.”— Richard Bausch, author of Peace, and The Fate of Others: Stories. “Zeeva Bukai's stunning novel takes place nischt ahn, nischt aher, where memory and damage conjoin and there are no solutions. Bukai's luminous prose heals even as it wounds, and I was utterly entranced by her wisdom and masterful approach to trauma. The World Between should be required reading for anyone seeking understanding of the Holocaust, survival, and the profound impact of both.”—Erika Krouse, author of Save Me, Stranger ""The World Between is fragile. It's mysterious. It's wonderfully written. Zeeva Bukai has created characters who breathe with weighty, tragic experience.""—Max Gross, author of The Lost Shtetl, 

Author Information

Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel, raised in New York City and the author of a previous novel, The Anatomy of Exile. Her honors include a Fellowship at the New York Center for Fiction and residencies at Hedgebrook, and Byrdcliffe Artist In Residence program. Her stories are forthcoming in the anthology Smashing the Tablets: A Radical Retelling of the Hebrew Bible, and have appeared in Carve Magazine, Pithead Chapel, the Lilith anthology, Frankly Feminist: Stories by Jewish Women, December Magazine where her story The Abandoning (an early version of the first chapter of her novel, The Anatomy of Exile, was selected by Lily King for the Curt Johnson Prose Prize, The Master’s Review, where she was the recipient of the Fall Fiction prize selected by Anita Felicelli, Mcsweeny’s Quarterly Concern, Image Journal, Jewishfiction.net, Women’s Quarterly Journal, and the Jewish Quarterly. Her work has been featured on the Stories on Stage Davis podcast. She studied Acting at Tel-Aviv University, and holds a BFA in Theater and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College. She is the Assistant Director of Academic Support at SUNY Empire State University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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