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Israel
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Orly Castel-Bloom has been named one of the 50 most influential
women in Israel. She is considered one of the outstanding writers of her generation.
She has published five novels and four short-story collections, and received
the 1990 Tel Aviv Prize for Literature for Where I Am. Her latest novel,
Human Parts, follows three characters through the worst winter Israel
has ever seen, and celebrates the power of the human spirit in the face of disaster.
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