HUNTING IN AMERICA

Voted by Ha'aretz Best Book of 2023, "this is an impressive and aesthetic book, precise as an arrow."

An Israeli woman relocates alone to America on assignment from her tech company, determined to leave her past behind. When she joins some colleagues on a hunting trip, she becomes gripped by the sport. She develops a relationship with her colleague David, her hunting partner and guide. She fires again and again, refining her skills, drawn into a world of violence and dark attraction. Her relationship with David deepens as her job security and sense of self falter. As she takes on the role of hunter, her life choices start to haunt her. Hunting with David becomes the one stable aspect of her life until one day everything changes.

In her reserved yet poetic style, Tehila Hakimi thrusts her readers into a world where the bonds between woman, man, work, and nature threaten to dissolve. The tangible atmosphere of suspense is the backdrop to an unraveling of the mind. Hakimi is one of the freshest and most prominent writers in Hebrew literature today.

Tehila Hakimi is an award-winning Hebrew novelist and poet. She was a participant of the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship in The University of Iowa. For her first collection of poetry, We'll Work Tomorrow, 2014, she received the Prize for Emerging Poets by the Ministry of Culture (2014) and the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature. She published a graphic novel, In the Water and a collection of linked prose, Company, with Resling (2018). She was awarded The National Library's Pardes Scholarship for writers 2019, and The 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers. Hakimi's short prose was published in PRISM international, Asymptote, World Literature today and more.? Hakimi holds a BSc in mechanical engineering.