Don’t Call It Night
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The novel concentrates on two characters, Theo and Noa, a middle-aged childless couple living in a new town at the edge of a desert in modern Israel. Their relationship is precipitated into crisis by the mysterious death of one of Noa’s pupils and the story is set against the colourful backdrop of a remote small-town community, all engaged in its own stormy intrigue.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Nicholas
de Lange
Nicholas de Lange read Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Patristics. After a brief spell as a Research Fellow of the University of Southampton he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Rabbinics, becoming Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1995 and Professor in 2001. His research interests include Hellenistic and Byzantine Judaism. He has held visiting positions at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary in Budapest, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He is also a prolific translator, specialising mainly in contemporary Hebrew fiction, and has served as Chairman of the Translators Association. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Nicholas de Lange read Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Patristics. After a brief spell as a Research Fellow of the University of Southampton he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Rabbinics, becoming Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1995 and Professor in 2001. His research interests include Hellenistic and Byzantine Judaism. He has held visiting positions at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary in Budapest, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He is also a prolific translator, specialising mainly in contemporary Hebrew fiction, and has served as Chairman of the Translators Association. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.