Shulamit Lapid is a Tel Aviv-born author and playwright who writes for children and adults. Her historical novel Ge oni was published in 1982 to critical acclaim. Among the many prizes Lapid has received are Germany’s Krimipreis for the best crime novel in 1966 and the International Theater Institute Award in 1988.
For the wrong we did before You by listening to voices at odds with what we knew was right;
For the wrong we did before You by not listening to voices telling us unpleasant truths;
For the wrong we…
The cheeks collapsed and the eyes half-shut,
My mother listens as her knees sigh:
The whole morning under the winter sky
She ran about to every market.
So let us now at the gate of the wall
Sleep…