Valerie Zenatti

After a random act of terrorism, Tal Levine, a seventeen-year-old girl from Jerusalem, writes a letter, puts it in a bottle, and sends it to Gaza, which forever changes her life--and the life of the young Palestinian man who reads her message.

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

The story of one girl's experience in the Israeli national army where strict routines, grueling marches, poor food, and lack of sleep are the norm, but service has its rewards as well.

When I Was a Soldier

Adriana Hunter

Following a suicide bomb attack on her local Jerusalem café, in which she and her friends could so easily have been its victims, a seventeen-year-old Israeli schoolgirl decides to send a message in a bottle to Gaza. An act of hope and desperation, Tal believes that by making contact with a Palestinian she will be able to begin a dialogue through which experiences can be shared, and, just possibly, some kind of mutual understanding achieved. Her message is found by a young man who calls himself Gazaman, and a remarkable email correspondence begins . . . A mesmerising account of a turbulent relationship conducted between two people whose dialogue is in itself an act of revolution against the situations in which they both feel themselves to be trapped.

Valerie Zenatti

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