The Detective-Philosopher of Sderot

The heart of Shimon Adaf’s Lost Detective trilogy, translated by Yardenne Greenspan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August, is an homage to newcomers. The trilogy tells the story of the small, southern Israeli town of Sderot, and those few of its inhabitants who made their way to Tel Aviv. While written as a fast-paced detective story, Adaf’s work is filled with profound political and social commentary, poetics and film criticism, and lyrical writing about music.