Mordantly funny and deeply moving, this award-winning novel about life in a West Bank settlement has been hailed as "brilliant" (The New York Times Book Review) and "The Great Israeli Novel in which] Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel's Jonathan Franzen" (Tablet). On a rocky hilltop stands Ma'aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. According to government records it doesn't exist; according...