Out today from Restless Books is Shulamith Hareven'sThirst: The Desert Trilogy, a vivid and surprising retelling of three canonical Biblical tales that together cast a searching, critical light on modernity. Written by one of Israel’s most important writers and translated from the Hebrew by one of its leading cultural critics, Hillel Halkin, these stories come alive again in what The New York Times calls “evocative and lush prose.” Download the newly designed eBook today!