The World Between

by Zeeva Bukai

With the breakup of her marriage, a once famous actress of the Yiddish theater travels to Tel-Aviv to revisit the apartment she once shared with her husband, Max. Soon after, she finds herself at the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition Hospice in Jaffa, a sanitorium, run by a group of nuns. Unclear as to how she got there, she begins to piece together the events that led her to this moment. From New York to Tel -Aviv, and the Siberian gulag, The World Between explores the landscape of a marriage, friendship, loss, and the way childhood war trauma bleeds into every aspect of the characters’ lives.

Genres: Jewish, Fiction

150 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 24, 2026

Reviews

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heads up Book Clubs/Discussion Groups that will discover a plethora of interesting issues including the challenges of marriage, multigenerational family, the Holocaust and more.
The World Between, set in New York and Tel-Aviv, should be your next fiction selection!
Brava, talented author, Zeeva Bukai!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

the yellow wallpaper meets death in venice meets night (with a faint dust of gentleman in moscow) yet wholly singularly Zeeva Bukai in an astonishing read that further proves you don’t need to go long to be EPIC.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book so much and was taken in from the very first page. It’s a short book but reads like an epic novel that flips back and forth between different eras and places and leaves the reader wondering what will happen (or rather what happened in the past) until the very end!

[Erika Dreifus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Zeeva Bukai's second novel (after last year's lauded The Anatomy of Exile), is quite different from the debut, but no less stunning. This more slender book wraps the reader within a less populated tableau—fewer characters and storylines—but an equally exquisitely-crafted story. I'm so grateful for the sneak peek and the opportunity to immerse myself in these pages, and I'm eager to follow the discussions that it will evoke.

[Rachel]

Review to come