The novels
Award-winning literary fiction by Noa Yedlin.
House Arrest
A story of family, power, and the walls we build around ourselves.
Asa Fogel, an unemployed professor recently separated from his wife, learns that his mother — deputy director of a peace research institute and professor of Israel studies — is suspected of embezzling 3.4 million shekels. The novel follows Asa as he navigates family dynamics, media scrutiny, and the need to reassess everything he thought he knew about the people closest to him. Told across eight narrative sections, each from a different perspective, House Arrest is a darkly comic portrait of a family, a social class, and the lies we tell to protect ourselves.
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Stockholm
Avishai Sar-Shalom, a world-renowned economist and the leading candidate for the Nobel Prize, is discovered dead in bed by four lifelong friends. Rather than call the police, they decide to conceal his death for eight days — long enough for the Prize committee to make its announcement. Told across eight sections, each from a different friend's perspective, Stockholm is a darkly comic novel about aging, ambition, friendship, and the secrets we carry to the grave.
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People Like Us
A darkly comic portrait of a family and the gap between who we think we are and how we actually live.
Osnat and Dror, a couple in their forties with two daughters, buy their dream home in a rundown neighborhood — betting on gentrification, on their own good taste, on the idea that people like them belong somewhere better. Then the neighborhood pushes back. A sharp, darkly comic portrait of a family, a social class, and the gap between who we think we are and how we actually live.
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The Wrong Book
A novel about secrets, identity, and what we owe the people we love.
Rona is thirty-five, on maternity leave, and quietly convinced she should have written something serious by now. Years ago she won a prestigious literary competition. Since then, nothing. When a friend introduces her to romantic fiction, Rona enters an online contest under a pseudonym — and wins. A publisher offers her a contract. The book becomes a bestseller. The only problem: her husband Gidi, an archaeology professor, considers this genre beneath contempt. A novel about secrets, identity, and what we owe the people we love.
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