Edeet Ravel

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Edeet Ravel

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Edeet Ravel is the author of sixteen books for children and adults. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and have won numerous awards, including the Hugh MacLennan Book Award, the J.I. Segal Award, the Canadian Jewish Book Award (in two categories), the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and the Snow Willow Award. Edeet's books have also been shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Crime Award. Edeet was a three-time Governor General's Award finalist in two categories. Her novel The Saver (Groundwood) was adapted into film by Wiebke von Carolsfeld. Her latest (crossover) novels are A Boy Is Not a Bird and A Boy Is Not a Ghost, about a chil ...more

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3.69 avg rating — 1,183 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Ten Thousand Lovers (Tel Av...

3.76 avg rating — 1,131 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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The Cat

3.73 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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A Wall of Light (Tel Aviv T...

3.46 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions
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Look for Me (Tel Aviv Trilo...

3.50 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Your Sad Eyes and Unforgett...

3.52 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Bird

3.90 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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The Saver

3.33 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Ghost

4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings3 editions
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The Last Rain

2.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Edeet’s Recent Updates

Edeet Ravel and 132 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of The Turn of the Screw:
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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It is the worst thing in the world to leave children with servants.
Maria Edgeworth , Practical Education, 1798

Of all the vulgar superstitions of the half educated, none dies harder than the absurd delusion that there is no such thing as ghosts.
Will" Read more of this review »
Edeet Ravel and 132 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of What Maisie Knew:
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
"Well, I told myself to review more of my 5 star books instead of taking the easy way out projectile sneering at some grisly two star efforts. but it's hard. There are some brilliant Henry James reviews dotted around, and this won't be one of those. I" Read more of this review »
The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
"As Britney Spears once memorably put it, “oops, I did it again!” After moaning on about the repetitions and is-it-real-or-what in the last novel I read The Man Who Saw Everything, blow me down, here’s ANOTHER novel where there are endless repetitions" Read more of this review »
Edeet Ravel and 1 other person liked Leola's review of Talking to Strange Men:
Talking to Strange Men by Ruth Rendell
"First of my 18th Birthday bookshelf down! This one was from Grandad! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Definitely not something I’d usually read but the twists were shocking and the writing was solid and the concept was very interesting. Overall a great read!" Read more of this review »
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
" Hilarious! Wittiest reviewer on GR. "
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“People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.”
Edeet Ravel, Ten Thousand Lovers

“I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.”
Edeet Ravel

“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.”
Edeet Ravel, Held

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