NO ONE LEAVES PALO ALTO

An extra cadaver is discovered in the Technion's Medical School anatomy lab. So opens the murder case that will shake the world of Iris Abramov, a police investigator in the process of a divorce, who sometimes still pinches souvenirs from murder scenes.

Iris' path intersects with that of Idan Luria, a young runaway who finds himself at a commune in the home of Tobias, an Arab poet. Years later, Noah Kenny, a real estate mogul snapping up land around Wadi Salib, will enter the picture, as will his son Yotam, who goes on a post-army trip, but instead of climbing Everest he wanders around downtown Haifa, trying to hear his dead mother's voice.

This layered novel takes place over two decades, but despite the distance of space and time, the lives and dreams of these protagonists interconnect and affect each other. Their stories pulse through a world of police brutality, predatory gentrification, fraught racial politics, and a corrupt justice system.

NOBODY LEAVES PALO ALTO is at once a local and a universal novel. Yaniv Iczkovits, as a gifted storyteller whose devoted readers will follow him everywhere, writes of undeclared heroes and reveals courage, sincerity and beauty even in the darkest places.

YANIV ICZKOVITS completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. His third novel, "The Slaughterman's Daughter" was awarded the Wingate Prize in the United Kingdom, the Ramat Gan Prize and the Agnon Prize in Israel. Iczkovits lives with his family in Tel Aviv.