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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Ten Thousand Lovers (Tel Av...

3.76 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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The Cat

3.73 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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A Wall of Light (Tel Aviv T...

3.46 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions
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Look for Me (Tel Aviv Trilo...

3.50 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Your Sad Eyes and Unforgett...

3.52 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Bird

3.90 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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The Saver

3.34 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Ghost

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The Last Rain

2.68 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Edeet’s Recent Updates

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
"This book is so depressing that I had to read this one at the same time to prevent me from spiralling down into despair.

You may have heard of the title essay, which is funny and deservedly famous. But in the second essay the floor suddenly drops away" Read more of this review »
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
"DECEMBER 2013


Paul Bryant had really only just started driving back home, was still trying with his left hand to jam the seat belt buckle into its lock, and – multitasking like mad - he was thinking about how to review Life After Life, and probably ge" Read more of this review »
Prisoners of Geography by Tim  Marshall
"Once I read this true crime account of this serial killer and they didn’t find the bodies, I think they got him on dna, and so they ask him what did you do with the bodies. They were wondering what genius plan of disposal the guy had come up with to " Read more of this review »
Edeet Ravel and 586 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of Bleak House:
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
"Okay, so this is the 1853 version of The Wire. But with less gay sex. And no swearing. And very few mentions of drugs. And only one black person, I think, maybe not even one. And of course it's in London, not Baltimore. But other than that, it's the " 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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