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A controversial, award-winning story about the keen but untenable affair between an Israeli female and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel's most acclaimed novelists. When Liat matches Hilmi over a blustery autumn day in Greenwich Community, she discovers herself unwillingly drawn to him. Charismatic and attractive, Hilmi is a proficient young artist from Palestine. Liat, an aspiring translation pupil, plans to return to Israel the next summer. Despite understanding that their love can be only momentary, that this can exist only away from their conflicted homeland, Liat allows herself be enraptured by Hilmi - by his exciting creativity, by his beautiful hands and sensible eye, by his sweetness and devotion. Alongside one another they explore the town, sharing laughs and fantasies and pangs of homesickness. But the unfettered delight they awaken in one another cannot overcome the guilt Liat seems for hiding him from her family in Israel and her Jewish friends in New York. As her departure particular date looms and her love for Hilmi deepens, Liat must decide whether she is willing to associated risk alienating her family, her community, and her sense of do it yourself for the love of one man. Suspended from classrooms by Israel's Ministry of Education, Dorit Rabinyan's amazing novel includes multitudes. A striking portrayal of the strains - and delights - of the forbidden relationship, All the Waterways (publicized in Israel as Borderlife) is a love story and a conflict story, a New York story and a Middle East story, an unflinching foray in to the pushes that bind us and separate us. "The land is the same land," Hilmi reminds Liat. "In the long run all the streams flow in to the same sea."
