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	CTV.ca Giller Prize 2005
		Edeet Ravel was born on a Marxist kibbutz near the Israeli-Lebanese border and lived there until she was seven, when her parents returned to their hometown, Montreal.
		Ravel's first novel, Ten Thousand Lovers, was a finalist for the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was named a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2003 and one of Quill & Quire's top five Canadian novels of the year.
		Ravel is currently editing Tell Tony We Miss Him, a novel about children in Montreal of the ‘70s, and working on three novellas: The Stingy Girl, Saint Stone of Heart, and The Anais Nin War.
	www.ctv.ca /generic/WebSpecials/giller_prize/bios/ravel.html (286 words)

	Miriam of Nazareth Homepage
		Ravel claims that even though she has been writing since she was 12 she has never experienced writers’ block.
		So relaxed, or confident, was Ravel that she submitted the first portion of the manuscript without a covering letter.
		In her ‘real life’ fictions Ravel does not use formula even though she intentionally borrows and modifies patterns from the biblical text.
	www.miriamofnazareth.com /Look_for_Me.html (984 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel
		On this remarkable day I kissed a student, pursued a lover, found my father, and left my brother.” So begins Edeet Ravel’s captivating novel, which follows Sonya on a life-changing journey that leads her to the heart of Jerusalem, and to the heart of family secrets.
		Edeet Ravel was born on a Marxist kibbutz near the Lebanese border and lived there until she was seven, when her parents returned to their hometown, Montreal.
		Edeet returned to Israel to study English literature; she also holds an M.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in Jewish studies.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679313533 (400 words)

	:: The Official Site Of Edeet Ravel ::
		Such questions of trauma and recovery are at the heart of Edeet Ravel's A Wall of Light, a thoughtful and heartfelt novelistic meditation on Israel's past and present.
		Ravel is impressive for her willingness to say in unadorned language what she so powerfully feels.
		Ravel no doubt intends this cross-cultural exchange as an optimistic suggestion of what might be possible between the communities the characters represent.
	www.edeet.com /a-wall-of-light.html (2507 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Montrealer Edeet Ravel has been nominated for a 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award for her debut novel Ten Thousand Lovers, a story set in Israel about a young, idealistic emigrée who reluctantly falls in love with an Israeli army interrogator.
		Ravel believes an attack the book received in the press — a review in The Gazette — was “politically motivated.” She believes the writer did not do more than skim the book.
		Ravel was born in Israel to Canadian parents Aviva and the late Nahum Ravel and raised on a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz before the family returned to Montreal when she was seven.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=1820 (859 words)

	Canadian author Edeet Ravel talks about her new novel, 'Look for Me.' -- Beliefnet.com
		Edeet Ravel's novels explore the mixing of politics with the personal in daily life in Israel.
		Canadian Writer Edeet Ravel was born on an Israeli kibbutz.
		Ravel recently spoke with Beliefnet about her novel's themes of love in a time of war, and about the mixing of politics with the personal in daily life in Israel, as well as in her own writing.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/151/story_15140_1.html (833 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Wall of Light: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Edeet Ravel is a novelist who can fascinate and frustrate a reader in almost equal measure.
		That's what I mean by the scope of an ambition that connects her to Amos Oz and the Biblical prophets on the one hand, and to Margaret Atwood and a string of 19th-century English novelists on the other.
		Unlike Margaret Atwood, Edeet Ravel has not mastered the epic device of tales-within-tales that is the pre-condition for writing a really big book in which the problems of individual lives accurately reflect the character of the times.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679313532 (643 words)

	The Interrogator - New York Times
		Edeet Ravel doesn't explain why his daughter returns ''home'' to Israel; maybe the girl doesn't know either.
		Because Ravel allows Lily to be prickly and perverse and Ami to react with impatience, the strength of their intense affair is deeply moving.
		It is immensely to Edeet Ravel's credit that this novel, far from being a rant, balances deep bitterness with an abiding tenderness for the country she once called home.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07EED8133BF936A25751C0A9629C8B63 (674 words)

	JBooks.com - Interviews and Profiles: Lovers in a Dangerous Time
		That’s not surprising, given that novelist Edeet Ravel is a peace activist.
		Yet Ravel’s politics do not get the better of her art; her attempt to probe the complicated morass of contemporary Israel is compelling—a lament for innocence lost.
		Edeet Ravel: Most of Lily's Jerusalem adventures are based on actual experiences I had.
	www.jbooks.com /interviews/index/IP_Globerman.htm (819 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Books - Look for Me
		Edeet Ravel was born on a Marxist kibbutz near the Israeli-Lebanese border.
		Ravel is a poignant writer whose skill for crafting character makes Dana Hillman as fascinating as she is enigmatic.
		Having never heard of Ravel before, or this her new book (recently learned that she has penned two other novels with titles on seemingly similar themes), Stone's review really sparked some interest.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=4052 (1089 words)

	Special Content - Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ravel clearly intends the split within Ami to stand as a political metaphor for Israel itself.
		Ravel attempts to mirror the work of interrogation by framing many scenes as extended dialogues between Ami and Lily.
		Ravel also makes a few missteps — for instance, she includes a recipe for parsley hummus that, while it does sound appetizing, is entirely out of tone with the rest of the book.
	www.thejewishweek.com /bottom/specialcontent.php3?artid=640 (1354 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Books: Ten Thousand Lovers
		The seed for Edeet Ravel's Governal General's Award-nominated first novel came from a conversation she once had with an interrogator in the Israeli army.
		Ravel, a prominent peace activist and member of the Montreal-based Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation, says she believes that the army is less idealistic than it once was.
		Though it's been 20 years since she had that inspirational conversation, Ravel doesn't regret waiting this long for success.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/111303/books.html (748 words)

	Review - A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel
		Ravel’s A Wall of Light amounts to a fantastic poem of a kiss that couldn’t be postponed and a Penelope pursuing an unknown lover inside an Ithaca divided by a wall of misunderstanding.
		Although Ravel’s protagonist Sonya is totally deaf, her perceptions otherwise are so all-embracing that her handicap may actually be a stroke of good luck.
		For example, the journey to find the sympathetic taxi driver Khalid and conversations with him, only some meters from the death bed of his mother, in his home; or the trip to the apartment of Sonya’s true father Eli, who is alcoholised; the dialogues there between him, Raya and Lily.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/ravel.htm (1066 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ten Thousand Lovers: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ten Thousand Lovers, by Edeet Ravel, tells the story of a young Canadian woman, Lily, who while studying in Israel in the 1970s meets and falls in love with a handsome and charming Israeli man a few years older and a thousand times more worldly.
		Ravel is able to take the reader to the exact point of her narration and she pours her heart and soul into the pages of her work.
		Ravel was able to make me laugh and cry as I turned the pages of this generous book and I was unable to put it down until I had finished it completely.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0755303709 (715 words)

	Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel - read book review
		The characterization is especially interesting because Ravel uses her characters...her Canadian Lily, who's relearning the Israeli ways, and her Israeli lover to contrast and point out the cultural character of these people.
		In one scene, Ami stands in front of a window and asks, "Beloved country, where are you?" In many ways, this encapsulates the whole of this part of the story.
		Ravel takes a hard look at the Israel of this time.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/ravel.htm (889 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 03/15/2006 : All Lit Up
		If I didn't know Edeet Ravel's background, I would have guessed she had never planted a baby toe in Israel.
		Ravel clearly wants to offer her readers a kind of epic -- telling the tales of three characters in their three different generations.
		Their stories are each insubstantial, though, and Ravel's narrative system is so hackneyed -- letters to a lover in Russia recounts one story; a teenager's diary, another; and a first-person tell-all, the last -- that it becomes laughable.
	www.citybeat.com /2006-03-15/alllitup2.shtml (397 words)

	Penguin Books Australia - Publishing with Penguin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Edeet Ravel is an Israeli-born author, and the three books in this series are about life in Tel Aviv and the Occupied Territories.
		Once more, she blends the personal and political so well that our understanding of each dimension is enlarged, though with this novel there is a focus on family rather than friends.
		In Ravel's inimitable style, none of her characters is permitted to grow without first dealing with and understanding personal pain and loss.
	www.penguin.com.au /new/new-title-details.cfm?SBN=1920885749 (190 words)

	FORWARD : FacesForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ravel has, to say the least, begun to reconsider her work, and she's found herself taking second looks at the many other manuscripts she stuffed into drawers throughout her lifetime.
		Ravel's minimalist treatment of this ugly subject parallels the way Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld handles the horrors of the Holocaust: by secondary allusion, never by direct revelation.
		Ravel says she put off writing the ending for as long as she could, and it's clear that she cares deeply for her characters and for Israel.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.10.31/faces.html (916 words)

	Powell's Books - Look for Me by Edeet Ravel
		Once again, love is at stake against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as an impetuous young woman is separated from her older lover by violence and politics.
		In Ten Thousand Lovers Ravel — a Canadian who grew up in Israel — seamlessly wove Israeli culture and politics with details of the everyday lives of both Jews and Arabs.
		Edeet Ravel was born and raised on a Marxist Israeli kibbutz and now lives in Quebec, Canada.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0060586222-2 (658 words)

	Ten Thousand Lovers, Edeet Ravel - HarperCollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was part of the system, and he appeared to be in bad shape.
		Edeet is an archaic word, no longer in use, and never in common use, even in ancient times.
		It is an adjective used to describe arable land.
	www.harpercollins.com /authorintro/catalog/book_interview_xml.asp?isbn=0060565624 (1844 words)

	BiblioTravel: Look for Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story is told in two streams: one in which Dana looks back at events a decade ago when she met her husband Daniel, and a second in which Dana is looking for Daniel after he disappeared mysteriously.
		Ravel incorporates throughout the narrative short reflections on the words used by the narrator-- arabic; hebrew; english.
		Ravel is writing a trilogy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so look for her other books!
	www.bibliotravel.com /books.php?book=2115 (319 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet while Ravel's credentials on love and loss may be impeccable, she flunks when it comes to language.
		Indeed, while meh.abel in the sense of "terrorist" (i.e., one who deliberately wounds, damages or causes pain) is a modern Hebrew word, the term mal'akhei h.abalah, "punishing angels," used to refer to the demons whose job it is to torture sinners after their death, is an ancient rabbinic one.
		A novelist like Ravel is as entitled as anyone to have her political opinions and to express them in her writing.
	www.forward.com /issues/2004/04.02.06/arts5.philologos.html (707 words)

	Ten Thousand Lovers and Glengarry Tourism - Rana Bose. Article 7 in 17/1 of Montreal Serai
		Using wry and dry but hilarious Arab-isms and Hebrew cuss words, Edeet Ravel has woven or rather carved out an extremely contemporary novel out of the hard, stolid and tragic reality that is Israel and Palestine.
		This novel could very well have been written in the context of the current dangerous situation in the Middle East, but in reality is set in the seventies, when the nature of the conflict was confined somewhat to warring armies, rather than feuding neighbourhoods and settlements.
		This is a most poignant, tender and romantic novel, not dramatic, not pedantic and yet replete with a dignified call to look below the veneer of stated goals, scriptural pronouncements and the announcements of both governments and movements and in turn understand the deep frustrations of a homeless nation.
	www.montrealserai.com /2004_Volume_17/17_1/Article_7.htm (938 words)

	Text Publishing
		Sonya undergoes a cataclysmic sexual awakening on a searing summer’s day in Jerusalem which ensures her life will never be the same.
		Edeet Ravel displays great compassion for her characters and unveils what it is to be fully human in these confusing and violent times.
		Edeet Ravel was born on a kibbutz in Israel and lived there until she was seven.
	www.textpublishing.com.au /win-item.asp?id=312 (210 words)

	Ten Thousand Lovers - Judaism
		Lily herself has left-wing leanings and at first was turned off by Ami's profession.
		Moving back and forth between her love story with Ami, and her present life in London, her daughter now grown, Ravel presents the tension and reality of Israeli life in a way that neither horrifies nor glorifies.
		Ravel herself hails from an Israeli kibbutz and now lives in Canada.
	bodyart.bellaonline.com /articles/art41116.asp (216 words)

	Akron Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About the books Ten Thousand Lovers is set in Israel in the 1970s and is a story of Lily, a young emigrant student, and the man of her dreams, Ami, who has one terrible flaw.
		About the author Edeet Ravel was born in Israel on a kibbutz near the Lebanese border, where she lived until she was 7 years old.
		After moving to Montreal, Ravel returned to Jerusalem at age18 to complete her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature.
	www.akronjewishnews.com /default_archives.cfm?article_id=485 (255 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Look for Me by Edeet Ravel
		Dana Hillman is a young Israeli woman whose humanity and passion for justice are obvious to all who meet her.
		“Ravel moves effortlessly from the larger to the smaller picture, bringing us a fascinating perspective of someone living the politics of one of the world’s most notorious hot spots amidst a daily life of much personal eccentricity.”
		Ravel studied English literature in Israel, and has also has an MA in creative writing and a PhD in Jewish studies.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679312970 (419 words)

	Ten Thousand Lovers : A Novel
		It is! I would have put this book down after the first chapter if not for my interest in the Hebrew language and Ravel's decision to include Hebrew etymology woven into the story.
		Ravel's political leanings are clear in this story and really frustrate me because someone with less knowledge of the situation would really get the wrong idea!
		If you believe that only you own the truth, it may be hard to see the strands of integrity in both positions that are depicted here.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail?isbn=0060565624 (343 words)

	A Wall of Light: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After reading Edeet Ravel's first published novel, "Ten Thousand Lovers" last winter, I was delighted to read her second novel, "Look for Me." (Lucky for me, both had already been published!)
		I think that a large part of the problem is that they do not have organization, and a leader who is democratic.
		The sequence of authors continues through the book; we are able to get a view into the heart of each writer, and are also able to see the same events through different eyes.
	www.awardannals.com /detail/0679313532 (1021 words)

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