Yesh Anashim She Medabrim Kacha by Yonatan Sagiv

One day, in the backyard of his parents’ house, Yonatan Shagiv loses his voice. Suddenly, he is trapped in a bubble of silence from which he sends subtle signals to a reality that has suddenly become very distant. With the help of an exceptional doctor, he embarks on a journey to trace the origins of his voice, which turns out to be a black box of erasures, scars, and silencing.

The silence, it turns out, is shared by many parents: a rite of passage to a masculinity that is never possible, a life torn between Britain and Israel, death in a family that came suddenly and continues to cast its shadow over the years. Gradually, the narrator uncovers the ways in which he has imposed silence on himself and tries to retrieve his voice through the painful history of its suppression.

“Some People Talk Like This” is a work that brings Yonatan Shagiv’s talent to a new continent, blending captivating narrative power with intimate, penetrating emotional depth. This is Shagiv’s fourth prose book, following the detective series featuring Oded Hefar (“No Secrets in Society”, “Things Best Left Unsaid”, and “The Last Scream”), which has received praise from readers and critics alike. The series has been translated into French and German and is in development for a television adaptation.