Two women, who in this day are considered saints, lived a not so holy life at the beginning of their way.
One of them was Mary Magdalene. The other woman was an entertaining dancer who became the powerful empress of the Byzantine Empire. She is known today as Saint Theodora, of the Eastern Orthodox Church…
Here is the gripping story of Lili, a prositute from modern day Jaffa, as told by Adon, an unlikely ascetic passer-by.
When Adon meets Lili, she is in a sack, tied, gagged, and on the brink of violently losing her life.
It is a razor-sharp story of love and Spirituality, set against the raw and vibrant human landscape of Jaffa. A stark and riveting account of the human experience in its many moving parts.
Nobel Prize nominee, Shlomo Kalo delivers another thought-provoking masterpiece that richly explores the zeniths of man’s compassion, and the depths of his depravity. A master of the craft, Kalo employs honesty in conveying the rich layers of human life and the delicacy by which their various struggles paint the city of Jaffa in vibrant hues of sacrifice and redemption of the rarest kind.
“Lili is an ambitious, sweeping book, especially moving at the end…Shlomo Kalo is, obviously, a writer of talent, vision and significant accomplishment.” Daniel Menaker, HarperCollins
